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Book SynopsisJon 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 th
Trade Review"Citing - as he often did - Edgar Degas, my old Reading professor said, if you can't draw you can't paint. Jon Harris's art has gone that right way. Artist about Cambridge should reap every reward." Anthony Day
Table of ContentsForeword, by Dame Fiona Reynolds Note on the Illustrations About the Artist The Singularity of a Questing Eye, by Patrick Carnegy 1. Home Base: Roofscapes from Green Street 2. The Kite and its Satellites 3. Around Midsummer Common 4. Mapping Town and Gown 5. Riverside and Industrial 6. The Mechanical Muse 7. The Wrecking Ball 8. Excursions 9. Scherzo and Finale List of Exhibitions Illustrations used in this Book Paintings and Some Sketchbook Pages by Jon Harris
