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Jon Harris has lived, breathed and drawn Cambridge for over 50
years. His architect's sense of structure and fabric, his
draughtsman's eye and vigorous use of pen and brush have produced
an outstanding body of work. In 1997 the Fitzwilliam Museum
honoured him with an exhibition of some 90 paintings and drawings.
A great many of his best works are published for the fi rst time in
Artist about Cambridge. They include drawings from the more than 40
sketchbooks which have been his constant companions over the past
half century. Jon Harris's text describes in compelling detail how
the images came into being. Harris's work is not a depiction of
Cambridge as the tourist might like to have it, but is rather about
his fascination with unregarded vistas, its back streets, crucial
buildings lost to the wrecking ball, and with the city's industrial
past. The artist's unrivalled knowledge and understanding of
Cambridge and its environs inform every painting and drawing,
helping you enjoy a thousand things you might otherwise miss.
As the co-authors present 13 of American Prof. of Russian Lee B.
Croft's scholarly articles (in English with Russian examples), the
articles fascinate as they advance the reader's knowledge of:
glossolalia, poetic decipherment and translation, language
philosophy and psychology, linguistic iconicity and language
universals, an American Nobel-laureate scientist's inspiration,
literary pornography, pervasive triplicity, spontaneous human
combustion and polylingual alphamagic squares.
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