Hints and tips:
...Stephen Ellcock’s book, billed as a “visual journey through Albion’s psychic landscape”, is a magpie collection of classic images — Blake, Samuel Palmer, Arthur Rackham, John Martin — intermixed with 21st-century...
...So I was delighted to talk to Arthur about his ideas on this week’s Working It podcast, alongside the extremely wise Michael Skapinker....
...The artist I would collect if I could is William Blake – I have a few bookplates framed, but it would be amazing to have an original piece, particularly his print Pity....
...“Amados” (Loved Ones), from 1969, is a group portrait of hippiedom’s usual prophets, including William Blake, Arthur Rimbaud, Jesus, Buddha, Lao Tzu, Aretha Franklin and John Coltrane....
...He names CS Lewis, JRR Tolkien and Arthur Ransome – who was “terribly popular at the time” but less read now – as part of this era of creativity....
...Sex, art and religion are its themes, obsessively circled in a centuries-spanning narrative told in a breathless register somewhere between William Blake and Arthur C Clarke....
...Arthur Conan Doyle lived in Tennison Road, Norwood, setting for one of the first Sherlock Holmes stories....
...takes on Facebook TikTok, the viral video app, will ramp up spending “across all functions” in the US and is considering letting users shop directly from “hundreds . . . if not thousands” of brands, says Blake...
...starts with Iggy Pop inadvertently buying a bag of sand before blending Robert Heinlein, William Blake and Bertolt Brecht as channelled by Jim Morrison, with Rico Bell barrelhousing away on piano and Sally...
...Rosenthal is the second guest curator to make a personal selection from the Portland Collection; the first was Sir Peter Blake....
...Pat Blake, a wine trader, said his only concern was with the practicalities of Brexit....
...The film Generations of children have grown up on Arthur Ransome’s series of adventure novels set in the English Lake District on the cusp of the second world war....
...His towering 1991 statue of Sherlock Holmes stands outside Arthur Conan Doyle’s birthplace in Edinburgh....
...Back from India, Blake and Avery struggle to readjust....
...She charts her reading (mostly classics such as Bulgakov, Blake, the Beats), recounts significant dreams and attends to Tarot cards....
...It is known to be by Anthony Devis (1729-1816), a topographical artist who was half-brother to the prolific 18th-century Preston-born painter Arthur Devis....
...Other attempts to radicalise her included a nude “happening” by the artist Yayoi Kusama; a stage play by Andre Gregory; and figurative works by Graham Ovenden and Peter Blake....
...Druid leader Arthur Pendragon, a bangle round his head and a red dragon on his shield, admits these are not druids but still founding fathers....
...He began his career at Fried Frank, where he was mentored by veteran lawyer Arthur Fleischer....
...Arthur Robinson to name three....
...With a little sigh she returns to Blake....
...As William Blake pondered hopefully: “And did those feet in ancient time …?” Like a river nearing the sea, the A361 suddenly becomes a more imposing highway as it approaches the north Devon coast....
...The name Byass had come from an English importing agent, Robert Blake Byass, whose descendants gradually pulled out of the business, leaving it in the hands of the González family....
...Tate acknowledges as much with permanent solo presentations of Henry Moore and William Blake; Turner in the Clore gallery remains the model....
...Knights Bachelor Quentin Blake, illustrator. Kenneth Grange, industrial designer. Peter Hendy, commissioner, Transport for London. Bernard Hogan-Howe, commissioner, Metropolitan Police....
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