Author(s): Andrew Lambirth

Art

He also writes introducEons for exhibiEon catalogues and, to date, is the author of some 17 books, mostly full-length monographs on arEsts including John Armstrong, Stephen Chambers, Roger Hilton, Rose Hilton, John Hoyland, Maggi Hambling, Allen Jones, Ron Kitaj, Craigie Aitchison, L S Lowry and Ken Kiff. The current book, for which Sarah Drury has had the unenviable task of selecEng from Lambirth's vast output which of his shorter pieces previously published in The Spectator should be included, consists of 41 reviews, 15 interviews and 22 'reflecEons'. Altogether a finely-judged compilaEon which, as Tom Rosenthal remarks in his introducEon, comes from a writer who 'combines the snap, topical review with the more subtle and analyEcal qualiEes of the Emeless pracEEoner'.