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Catalogue No. 96
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Harry Potter: A History of Magic is the official book of the
record-breaking British Library exhibition, a once-in-a-lifetime
collaboration between Bloomsbury, J.K. Rowling and a team of
brilliant curators. As the spectacular show takes up residence at
the New York Historical Society from October 2018, this gorgeous
book - available in paperback for the first time - takes readers on
a fascinating journey through the subjects studied at Hogwarts
School of Witchcraft and Wizardry, from Astronomy and Potions
through to Herbology and Care of Magical Creatures. Each chapter
showcases a treasure trove of artefacts from the British Library
and other collections around the world, beside exclusive
manuscripts, sketches and illustrations from the Harry Potter
archive. There's also a specially commissioned essay for each
subject area by an expert, writer or cultural commentator, inspired
by the contents of the exhibition - absorbing, insightful and
unexpected contributions from Steve Backshall, the Reverend Richard
Coles, Owen Davies, Julia Eccleshare, Roger Highfield, Steve
Kloves, Lucy Mangan, Anna Pavord and Tim Peake, who offer a
personal perspective on their magical theme. Readers will be able
to pore over ancient spell books, amazing illuminated scrolls that
reveal the secret of the Elixir of Life, vials of dragon's blood,
mandrake roots, painted centaurs and a genuine witch's broomstick,
in a book that shows J.K. Rowling's magical inventions alongside
their cultural and historical forebears. This is the ultimate gift
for Harry Potter fans, curious minds, big imaginations,
bibliophiles and readers around the world who missed out on the
chance to see the exhibition in person.
Robert Kirkman (b. 1978) is probably best known as the creator of
The Walking Dead. The comic book and its television adaptation have
reinvented the zombie horror story, transforming it from cult
curiosity and parody to mainstream popularity and critical acclaim.
In some ways, this would be enough to justify this career-spanning
collection of interviews. Yet Kirkman represents much more than
this single comic book title. Kirkman's story is a fanboy's dream
that begins with him financing his irreverent, independent comic
book Battle Pope with credit cards. After writing major titles with
Marvel comics (Spider-Man, Captain America, and X-Men), Kirkman
rejected companies like DC and Marvel and publicly advocated for
creator ownership as the future of the comics industry. As a
partner at Image, Kirkman wrote not only The Walking Dead but also
Invincible, a radical reinvention of the superhero genre. Robert
Kirkman: Conversations gives insight to his journey and explores
technique, creativity, collaboration, and the business of comics as
a multimedia phenomenon. For instance, while continuing to write
genre-based comics in titles like Outcast and Oblivion Song,
Kirkman explains his writerly bias for complex characters over
traditional plot development. As a fan-turned-creator, Kirkman
reveals a creator's complex relationship with fans in a comic-con
era that breaks down the consumer/producer dichotomy. And after
rejecting company-ownership practices, Kirkman articulates a vision
of the creator-ownership model and his goal of organic creativity
at Skybound, his multimedia company. While Stan Lee was the most
prominent comic book everyman of the previous era of comics
production, Kirkman is the most prominent comic book everyman of
this dynamic, evolving new era.
A draughtsman of remarkable ability, matching even his mentor
Augustus John, Henry Lamb (1883-1960) was a founder-member of the
Camden Town Group, exhibiting at their inaugural exhibition in
1911. He was a powerful and original War artist, and an engaging
and sensitive portrait painter, whose group portraits in particular
are as successful as those by any British painter of the age. To
date unfairly eclipsed by the glamorous and culturally infl uential
circle around him, Lamb is now probably best known through these fi
gures and his many compelling portraits of them, amongst them Lady
Ottoline Morrell, Evelyn Waugh and Lytton Strachey, whose
monumental full-length portrait by Lamb in Tate Britain is probably
the artist's best-known work. Lamb abandoned a promising medical
career in Manchester to pursue his training as an artist at the
London art school run by William Orpen and Augustus John. He found
inspiration in the rural simplicity of Brittany, and a later visit
to Ireland inspired his great genre painting Fisherfolk, Gola
Island of 1913 - not seen in public since the last major
retrospective in 1984. Following active service during the First
World War as an army medical offi cer (for which he was awarded a
Military Cross), he contributed two of the greatest artworks to the
proposed National Hall of Remembrance a year after armistice in
1919. Following a productive period in Poole after the War, where
he produced some evocative townscapes of its streets and skylines,
he eventually settled in Coombs Bissett near Salisbury. Here he
established a reputation as a sought-after portrait painter,
executing a constant stream of landscapes, still lives, genre
pictures and fi ne domestic subjects. Accompanying an exhibition at
Salisbury Museum in 2018 and Poole Museum in 2019, Henry Lamb: Out
of the Shadows will focus on over 50 works by the artist from
across his career. As well as loans from major national
collections, the group will include signifi cant works from private
collections, including a substantial archive from the artist's
family and a number of re-discovered masterpieces. The catalogue
will also feature an introductory essay by Lamb's cousin, the
writer Thomas Pakenham who knew the artist well.
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