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Contorted Trees

Arts Contorted trees John McEwen It is quite an event when an artist of the stature of Kenneth Armitage has his first full-scale London show of new work for I , vears, and an......

Samurai Hisako Matsubara

Old order Francis King Samurai Hisako Matsubara (Bodley Head £5.95) Three images dominate Samurai - a novel written in German by a Japanese woman writer. The first of these is......