NOT FOR ART'S SAKE

An art book about art that has a purpose, focusing on work by Quentin Blake that has been commissioned for a particular place or for a particular use. Illustration is the most accessible visual artform and one that is used in all aspects of life, as Quentin Blake says, 'it is, if you like, a vernacular, its a language that everybody understands. They may look at it and not think that theyre looking at art, but its having the effect on them of art.