Imre Hofbauer - The Other London

"A pictural commentary upon a London
that does not appear in the guide books..."

	Written and illustrated by Imre Hofbauer. Nicholson and Watson, London, 1948.		The Other London is a pictoiral commentary upon a London which does not exist in the guide books. And it is a commentary in a true sense. The artist has not approached his subjects objectively. He has known life in many of Europe's great cities and feels deep affection not only for the individual subjects he has portrayed in The Other London, but also for the aspects of English life from which those subjects are taken. Number of symbolic pictures are included in the book. These represent a critical approach to all that is summed up in the less abstract drawings. But the criticism is not narrow nor doctrinaire. It conveys rather the note of sadness that must be struck in the mind of the creative worker who brings humanity and liberality of thought to the experiences of life. This is a book not only for those who enjoy the pictorial representation of life, but also for those to whom the living human being is of greater significance than the picture.
			>>> Read Harold Kelly's introduction >>> See Hofbauer's other book on London, London flower of cities all

Diaporama

The caravan of progress

A visit to uncle's

Behind the facade

Character in the making

Community

Dog-end

...et Nascitur ridiculus mus

Five Shilling Friend

For better and for worse

Forty Winks

...Goes he.

Good fare for man and beast

Here's to the flaunting
extravagant quean!

Hid scenes the light
might fear to reach

If I were Queen

If you don't speculate...

In Arrears with the rent

...Ineffectual opposition is a most effective safety valve. The art of ruling is to threaten but preserve it...

Landscape scenes

Light and Air

Living Space

...Look upon a little child...

One more day

When the day's work is done

Out of the cage

Pressure

Residential quarter

Respectable body

Strike

Sunday Dinner

Te deum

...That's the place for Billy and Me

...The ass, too, has his place in the procession...

As good as new

The children wait

...The glorious past the
schoolmen teach

The only way

There, but for the Grace of God

The Runt

The weariest life goes grudgingly...

The world below

Vitam et sanguinem sed avenam non

What will the harvest be?

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THE CARAVAN OF PROGRESS

"Far off the highway yet! By darkling ways
Still hung with shadows of the pagan night,
Where questing eyes, though lit by Faith’s clear glow,
See what is not, and see what is, awry:
Where certain judgment scanning simple truths
Reads only mysteries, and eager hope,
By dreamed enchantment born to ecstasy,
Acclaims the mirage promise of false light.
Far off the highway yet! By tortuous ways
Where still the beast of primal ages roams,
By warring mortal wisdoms long misled,
Though sense immortal whispers in its soul,
Humanity’s slow caravanseries
Moves on towards its consummation’s dawn
For this all glory! For this all shame!
Alleluia sing! Ichabod cry out!
All glory that two thousand sad years on,
His lesser peers, in honour round him ranged,
Heaven’s dearest nomad, Earth’s God-born guest,
Upon the Pantheon car of Progress rides.
All shame that still the brow is ringed with thorns
And still the wounds of crucifixion blood,
All shame the Man of Sorrows yet
The Prince of Peace still strives with unquiet men".

Harold Kelly, prelude to The Other London

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