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Nicholas James, editor Cv/Visual Arts Research, visits Yoko Ono exhibition at Tate Modern with film composer Isabella Summers. Recorded commentary on exhibits including Yoko Ono films, installations and documents. Part Two: Tate Modern In Construction Interview 06/08/1997 Project Manager Dawn Austwick on the Bankside site in development. Interview with curator Jeremy Lewison on exhibitions and presentations planned in the two London Tates. Part Three: Art Study Plan A combine painting 'Whirlwind' created by students on the Art Study Plan course, Richmond Community College 1988. As the project develops, monitored by tape recordings over a three month period, the students release controversial subject matter into the graffiti style mural, the 'Whirlwind' unleashing an unexpected dynamic from a communal imagination.

"Thinking About the Dreamland" is a thought-provoking novel that explores the intricate connection between dreams and reality. Set in a surreal landscape, the story delves into the characters' introspective journeys as they navigate the blurred lines between their aspirations and the dreamlike world that unfolds around them. With rich symbolism and vivid imagery, the book invites readers to ponder the nature of dreams and the impact they can have on our waking lives.

First published as Tracks: Plan of the Professions in 1997, the 15th revised and updated edition is published in 2017. It gives information for over150 professions, which include pathways in the banking and financial services, catering and hospitality, construction, education, health care, land and sea work, law, government and administration, leisure and tourism, manufacturing crafts, marketing, media, services, and sports and fitness. Qualifications are listed from GCSE and NVQ to degree level. There are work descriptions and pay scales with advice and starter tips from chartered institutes and professionals in each area.

First published as Tracks: Plan of the Professions in 1997, the 15th revised and updated edition is published in 2017. It gives information for over150 professions, which include pathways in the banking and financial services, catering and hospitality, construction, education, health care, land and sea work, law, government and administration, leisure and tourism, manufacturing crafts, marketing, media, services, and sports and fitness. Qualifications are listed from GCSE and NVQ to degree level. There are work descriptions and pay scales with advice and starter tips from chartered institutes and professionals in each area.Part Five explores athletics, sports and fitness, with professional advice and contacts for further development.

A survey of career paths in the catering industry with a supplement studying the effect of artificial intelligence on avenues of supply and distribution. With national coverage of the first edition in 1997 Tracks found an eager audience, including many parents needing to inform their children's choices for the future. Over fifteen annual editions the title has been revised and updated. The new edition carries several work descriptions per page, listing pay scales and qualifications to degree level, with advice from professionals in the field, and chartered institutes. The contact pages cross-reference with web-linked files in Tracks DVD. The 2024 edition covers over one hundred and fifty career paths in fourteen sections from banking and financial services to sports and fitness. Tracks aims to provide a reliable source of information, that also gives an idea of the technical operation of each area. "I never knew there were so many opportunities," a school student enthused at a presentation of the guide; an excitement we hope to preserve in the continued development of Tracks.

A guide to career paths in law, central and local government and administration.First published as Tracks: Plan of the Professions in 1997, the revised updated edition is published in 2024. It gives information for over150 professions, which include pathways in the banking and financial services, catering and hospitality,construction, education, health care, land and sea work, law, government and administration, leisure and tourism, manufacturing crafts, marketing, media, services, and sports and fitness. Qualifications are listed from GCSE and NVQ to degree level. There are work descriptions and pay scales with advice and starter tips from chartered institutes and professionals in each area.

The growth and diversity of careers and career pathways within medicine and health care can be confusing, yet it reflects the evolution of modern medicine which relies upon a myriad of different specialists each able to contribute their own particular skills to the care and well being of the patient or client. Careers within the NHS are many and varied, with opportunities to train not only as nurses and doctors but also as dieticians, occupational therapists, physiotherapists, and speech and language therapists. These are only a portion of the huge number of careers that are available to suit all tastes and abilities whether it is in medicine or support and technical staff there is something for everyone who is interested in health care. ¿¿First published as Tracks: Plan of the Professions in 1997, the revised and updated edition is published in 2024. It gives information for over150 professions, which include pathways in the banking and financial services, catering and hospitality, construction, education, health care, land and sea work, law, government and administration, leisure and tourism, manufacturing crafts, marketing, media, services, and sports and fitness. Qualifications are listed from GCSE and NVQ to degree level. There are work descriptions and pay scales with advice and starter tips from chartered institutes and professionals in each area.

With national coverage of the first edition in 1997 Tracks found an eager audience, including many parents needing to inform their children's choices for the future. Over fifteen annual editions the title has been revised and updated. The new edition carries several work descriptions per page, listing pay scales and qualifications to degree level, with advice from professionals in the field, and chartered institutes. The contact pages cross-reference with web-linked files in Tracks DVD. The 2012 edition Work Bank, covers over one hundred and fifty career paths in fourteen sections from banking and financial services to sports and fitness. Tracks aims to provide a reliable source of information, that also gives an idea of the technical operation of each area. "I never knew there were so many opportunities," a school student enthused at a presentation of the guide; an excitement we hope to preserve in the continued development of Track

Studies made between 2010 and 2020 in group work and studio compositions, developing drawings and watercolours to small scale panel paintings, and the large composition of 2021, Gods and Goddesses: six canvases 54"x48" forming two triptychs of twelve feet span.1 Attending life classes each week studies of professional models, actresses and dancers, are made in watercolour, oil and charcoal pencil. About fifteen sketches are made each session, often in bound books. 300 studies feature models Adrian, Agnieszka, Alberto, Bethan, Caroline, Ella, Fatima, Gilda, Jess, Mairi, Marika, Magdalena, Maya, Mercy. Natasha, Serelyn, Erica, Sophie, Sol, Susannah, Sylvette, , Tiziana, Vanessa. The studies are made on canvas, panel or canvas board, small scale from 6x4" or 10"x14" to 60x48".2 A set of panel paintings on the theme of Gods and Goddesses, drawn from Greek classical mythology. Subjects include: Ariadne, Danae, Circe and Zeus.

Cv/VAR reviews Marina Abramovi¿ , Anselm Kiefer and John Latham, exploring the emergence of conceptual and performance works of the 1970s, new approaches to a dematerialised art art that moved beyond the consumer-based culture of previous decades. Marina Abramovic, a poweful voice in this arena, is represented in a major exhibition staged throughout the Royal Academy of Art London. Hr videos, sculptures and installations are experienced in a recorded visit. Anselm Kiefer's 'Superstrings' were shown at White Cube Bermondsey in 2019 ; pioneer of conceptual art John Latham recorded a conversation with Cv in 1991 in his studio- Flat Time House, around the Story of RIO (Reflective Intuitive Organism) and discusses Niddrie Woman; a sculpture project it Lothian supported by the Scottish Office..

The volume documents media studies in Cv/VAR Archive nade between 1976 and 2025. Newsprint extracts make vignettes of popular subjects; celebrities, business, sports, beauty, cartoon characters. Over 300 drawings were made between 1981 and 1986 with further studies in 2003 and 2005. The volume includes 'Viewing and Listening', journal 1978-2022; photo-composites and drawings made as carbon trace collages. 'I began collecting the daily news in the summer of 1976, photographing random streams of television from a small black and white monitor and laying out sequential issues the Evening News, Sun and Daily Mirror, the covers pasted up on 6'x4' panels. The next step was to break down the material in fragments of headlines,fitted in xerox composites. The overall effect resembled a great coarse flow of unmetered experience. To filter the dominance of grey and black, in 1979 I began to trace bits of newsprint, introducing colour paper collages with the advent of the Falklands War in 1982. The first phase concluded in 1986 when I turned to abstract constructions (Signals 1986-96). World Score Dream encapsulates the series with collages made 1979-2005. The tracings are light and elusive, reading slant-wise across the pattern of images, text and borders, in a form of blind drawing with unpredictable results.' NPJ

A recorded visit to an exhibition by Anish Kapoor at the Lisson Gallery London continued to 22nd June 2019. Includes descriptions of works and bio-dara of the artist. An addendum features a visit to the artist's studio in Camberwell 2011 where he demonstrates works in progress for the Olympic National Park and Leviathan to be installed at Monumenta Paris. 'In the rear ground floor space of the Lisson Ggallery a suite of new paintings, completed at the end of 2018. Each canvas is 274 cms tall by 213 cms wide. The colour range is restricted and highly pitched, a distinctly abstract expressionist handling with sweeping brush and hand work. An aggressive and confrontational approach infuses a violently striated surface. A basic pink shape, in some like sagging flesh or an upturned vessel is worked with smeared white strokes, then corrupted by slashed veins of blood red and pitch black, scarring the lower part of the canvases. The hand work introduces an element of unleashed energy on the white ground, in a scheme of unleashed emotion. It is violently expressive, chaotic and turbulent. ' N.P. James

Celebrated Irish born painter Francis Bacon (1909-92) is discussed in a seminar for the MA History of Art course at Kingston University in 1995. It considers varied aspects of his work, the circumstances of his social milieu, his painting subjects, comparing him with predecessors in Western art from Goya to Picasso as well as contemporaries such as Lucian Freud. A second part reviews works in an exhibition Francis Bacon and the Human Body held at the Hayward Gallery London 1998 and Francis Bacon: Man and Beast presented at the Royal Academy London in 2022.

This review considers the major Cézanne exhibition at the Tate Gallery London, staged from 8th February until 28th April 1995. Rather than focusing exclusively on the artist's work, the piece attempts to place the exhibition in context, exploring the institutional arena of presentation and the social and economic strata to which the retrospective is mainly addressed. To encompass these multiple levels of attention, the essay is based on a journey through the exhibition, seen at the press view on 6th February 1995. The record is intentionally discursive, entwining impressions both of the works and the audience, groups of media professionals moving from room to room in sequence around the show. Further attention is given to the formation of the catalogue, to gain a reasonably complete picture of the event. The mnograph includes further essays on Impressism and Post-Impressionism including studies of Gauguin and Pierre Bonnard exhibited at Tate Nodern. ________________________________________________

Interview with British artist Stuart Brislay (born 1933) recorded in 1989 for Cv Journal, explores his sculptural installations and performance events.

Transcripts of recorded conversations with sculptors made between 1989 and 2010. Includes: Arman; Elspeth Barratt; Stuart Brisley; Anthony Caro; John Cobb; Phillip King; John Latham; David Nash; Gloria Ortega; Eduardo Paolozzi; Peter Randall-Page; Yinka Shonibare CBE; James Turrell; Rachel Whiteread; Alison Wilding; Richard Wilson. Cv/VAR 47 documents an interview with the the celebrated sculptor Arman (1928-2005), exploring his early connections with Yves Klein, Rosicrucianism, and the development of auto-formed sculptures of collected objects. Contents include Van Gogh, Iris Clert, Yves Klein, Claud Pascal, Jackson Pollock, Poliakoff, De Stäel, Werkmann, garbage works, welded pieces, the orchestral series, gods and goddesses, and biographical data.

Interviews-Artists Transcripts of recorded conversations with sculptors made between 1989 and 2010. Includes: Arman; Elspeth Barratt; Stuart Brisley; Anthony Caro; John Cobb; Phillip King; John Latham; David Nash; Gloria Ortega; Eduardo Paolozzi; Peter Randall-Page; Yinka Shonibare CBE; James Turrell; Rachel Whiteread; Alison Wilding; Richard Wilson. Cv/VAR 50 publishes an interview with the artist Helen Chadwick (1953-96), recorded at her Beck Road studio in 1989. It explores the body-action-photographic works distilled in installations such as Ego Geometria Sum and Of Mutability, and the cromalin prints of 1989: Viral Landscapes, prepared for exhibition at the Museum of Modern Art Oxford in 1990.

Artist Index 1 The Renaissance to Impressionism Artist Index provides a glossary of individual creators 14th to 21st centuries, with bio-data linked to sources for further reading. It is part of the series Painted Histories released September 2022 to May2023.

A personal view of Picasso and Paper, a major exhibition at the Royal Academy. The collection of over three hundred works covers drawings, collages and prints with key paintings including precocious and magneti examples from the artist's childhood in Malàga, academic drawings, early works in Paris, Horta del Ebro and Gosol, introducing the Blue and Rose perods, leading to the revolutionary development of Cubism; the iconoclastic masterpiece Les Demoiselles d'Avignon, his designs for Parade 1917 by Eric Satie, the Neo-Classical period of the 1920s, and works of resistance during the War years of 1939-45. The post-war move to the South of France show an unceasing prolific invention, exploring themes of Life, Love and Memory, culminating the stark self portrait in his last days. The whole body of work constitutes a consistent and critical statement of pictorial fact

Parts two of Cv's continuing series: Painted Histories, documents leading figures in the fields of classic and contemporary literature . The miscellany is fully illustrated with author portraits, biographical data and links for further reading, amd includes excerpts of selected titles.. Cv began in November 1988 publishing a quarterly review Cv Journal of Art and Crafts, published to 1991. In 1995 material was gathered launching Cv/Visual Arts Research, as ebooks, monographs, books and DVDs documenting artists ranging from James Turrell and Anthony Caro to Rachel Whiteread and Yinka Shonibare CBE. There are presently 540 active titles in the Cv catalogue.

Eminent childrens' book illustrator Fritz Wegner, born Vienna 15th September 1924, died London 15th March 2015. His early assignments included work in the 1940s for Lilliput Magazine, Dorothy L. Sayers and Enid Blyton, with book covers for Raymond Chandler The Long Goodbye' and the first UK edition of Catcher in the Rye by J.D. Salinger.In the late 1950s he moved away from advertising and commercial work to focus on childrens' literature. Renowned titles include The Hamish Hamilton books of Princes and Princesses, 1963/64, The Marvellous Travels and Adventures of Baron Munchausen 1967, Fattypuffs and Thinigers by Andre Maurois.In the 1980s and '90s he illustrated books by Allan Ahlberg, Michael Rosen and Brian Alderson.He also created over forty stamps for the Royal Mail. The Fritz Wegner Archive documents phases of his art from the 1950sto the 2000s It includes comprehensive images scanned from originals in the collection of over 3,500 graphic works. The publication is authorised by executors of the estate of the artist

Part one of the continuing series entitled Painted Histories indexes leading figures in two significant phases of poetic expression in English literature: the Elizabethans, including William Shakespeare, John Webster and Sir Philip Sidney to the Romantic movement of the earli 19th century: Lord Byron, John Keats, Percy Bysshe Shelley and Samuel Taylor Coleridge. The volume includes bio-data and links for further research.

The survey documents four leading artists, Lubaina Himid, Yinka Shonibare CBE, Hew Locke and the film maker Steve McQueen, exploring their work and ideas in development, in reviews and recorded conversations, drawn from Cv/Visual Arts Research Archive. Firstly a review of Lubaina Himid exhibition 'Nuance and Interpretation' at Tate Modern recorded 28th June 2022. Explores the artist's paintings, sculptures and sound environments in the broad ranging survey of work made since 1997.

A series of trompe l'oeil watercolours of single subjects, fruit and vegetables, made 1978-81 by artist Philip James ROI.

Paintings of old quarters of the city of London and high rise panoramas + small portraits of Oxford college gates. Descriptive commentaries.

Artist landscape studies made in journeys - Cornwall, Devon, Framce, Spain, Greece.

Title compares the work of leading British sculptors Anthony Caro and Alison Wilding.

Small Histories is a collection of essays and reviews by Nicholas James, 1993-2011, on examples of Western art: The Trinity by Masaccio at Santa Maria Novella, Florence, Vermeer's The Maid and Woman Weighing Pearls; Velázquez court portraits, Cézanne and Salvador Dalí, Francis Bacon, Anthony Caro, Damien Hirst and Andy Warhol, with reviews of exhibitions in London's public and private galleries. A collection of over seventy pieces reveals strands and connections that bind the continuum of classic and contemporary art.

An interview recorded at 'The Work of Angel' with Dr Michael Ryan of the National Museum Dublin, at the British Museum November 1989. The monograph is illustrated in colour with Celtic artefacts.

Documentary and fictions of daily experience, encounters and episodes: the streets, shoppers, external and internal worlds.