Will Maclean RSA, Professer of Painting in the University of Dundee, is one of the outstanding Scottish artists of his generation. He was born in Inverness where his father, a former sailor, was harbour master, & he spent his childhood between Inverness & Skye. His art is rooted in his knowledge of the Highlands, the Highland people & their history, & in his own early associations with sailors & the sea. These things make it relevant & immediately accessible, yet it remains uncompromisingly modern in its forms & in its concerns. In this new edition, Duncan Macmillan has extended & updated the book, first published in 1992, to include the important work that the artist has done in the last decade. Fittingly, the great Gaelic poet, the late Sorely Maclean, contributed a foreword to the first edition of Symbols of Survival. It is reprinted here &, elsewhere in the book, as he explores the poetry & meaning of Maclean's subtle & complex art, the author shows how, like Sorley Mac Lean's poetry, it reaches out from the artist's own experience to touch on universal themes. ...

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For fans of The Da Vinci Code: A conspiracy thriller about an age-old brotherhood of killers. Once hired by princes of the Church ...

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