111 Hidden Art Treasures in London That You Shouldn't Miss

This guidebook takes you exploring London beyond its most famous sights to find the art we have never quite noticed before: the hidden statues, paintings, and murals that have escaped from the official museums, and often live unnoticed lives in tucked away places. A famous literary cat, for example, or a painting by Hogarth on the bend of a stairs in an ancient hospital.

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Michael Glover is a Sheffield-born, London-based poet, art critic, editor and publisher who has contributed regularly to The Times, the Financial Times, the New Statesman and The Economist. He was born in Fir Vale, Sheffield, was educated at Firth Park Grammar School, and read English at Queens' College, Cambridge. He has been a London correspondent for ArtNews, New York. His on-line, international poetry journal, The Bow-Wow Shop (www.bowwowshop.org.uk) first went online in 2009. His most recent books are: Great Works: Encounters with Art (Prestel), Only So Much (his seventh collection of poetry), and Headlong into Pennilessness, a memoir of growing up in Sheffield. Two collections of poetry are coming soon: Hypothetical May Morning and The Book of Extremities.Benedict Flett recently graduated from the university of Cambridge. He has been using a camera of some sort since he was young. He is interested in the correspondences between architecture and ideology and is documenting the 'regeneration' of inner London housing estates.