English Art and English Rubbish
Peter Campbell, 20 March 1986
C.R. Ashbee: Architect, Designer and Romantic Socialist
by Alan Crawford.
Yale, 500 pp., £35, November 1985,0 300 03467 9 Show More
by Alan Crawford.
Yale, 500 pp., £35, November 1985,
The Laughter and the Urn: The Life of Rex Whistler
by Laurence Whistler.
Weidenfeld, 321 pp., £14.95, October 1985,0 297 78603 2 Show More
by Laurence Whistler.
Weidenfeld, 321 pp., £14.95, October 1985,
The Originality of Thomas Jones
by Lawrence Gowing.
Thames and Hudson, 64 pp., £4.95, February 1986,0 500 55017 4 Show More
by Lawrence Gowing.
Thames and Hudson, 64 pp., £4.95, February 1986,
Art beyond the Gallery in Early 20th-century England
by Richard Cork.
Yale, 332 pp., £40, April 1985,0 300 03236 6 Show More
by Richard Cork.
Yale, 332 pp., £40, April 1985,
“... habit of practical philanthropy which was both a virtue and an indulgence for someone who found Edward Carpenter’s ‘ideal of comradeship among simple honest ordinary lives’ so attractive. He left Cambridge and began to lecture and teach. He was inspired, as Crawford puts it, by ‘a mixture of angry youthful idealism and of upper-class notions of duty ... ”