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Chemotherapy-day drawings

Undergoing treatment for bowel cancer, artist Clare Smith produced around 70 abstract drawings while sitting in the chemotherapy chair. She reflects on how creativity can bring respite in a crisis.

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Aphasia and drawing elephants

When Thomas Parkinson investigated the history of “speech science”, he discovered an unexpected link between empire, elephants and aphasia.

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Book design, dissected

Gwen Smith talks to art director Peter Dyer about imagery, colour, type and staying true to the pages within.

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Restoring disorder to ‘The Book of Disquiet’

Printer Tim Hopkins explains what making an extraordinary new edition of Fernando Pessoa’s book revealed about both the text and the mind.

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  • An interior in candlelight with male figures drawing; sculptures, books, skulls and a human skeleton arranged on a shelf and on the floor. Engraving by E. Vico after B. Bandinelli.
  • Skull, placed on a book. Pencil drawing, 18--?.
  • A botanical drawing-book: or, an easy introduction to drawing flowers according to nature / [James Sowerby].
  • A botanical drawing-book: or, an easy introduction to drawing flowers according to nature / [James Sowerby].
  • Drawing of duck from the book of the birth of Iskandar
  • The cover of a Buddhist painted book box. Drawing by an Indian artist.
  • A member of the Mughal royal family, holding a book (?). Watercolour drawing by an Indian artist.
  • Front cover of a drawing book for students by J. D. Harding, S. Prout, C. Hullmandel, A. Aglio, & c. Letterpress.
  • A man sits at a table on a platform reciting from a book, while three women and a man stand nearby. Coloured drawing (?).
  • A seated figure of Time holding a scythe and an hourglass with a female figure of Geometry holding dividers and a female figure resting a book on her knee. Red chalk drawing.
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