Down with Cosmopolitanism
Gillian Darley, 18 May 2000
Stylistic Cold Wars: Betjeman v. Pevsner
by Timothy Mowl.
Murray, 182 pp., £14.99, March 2000,9780719559099 Show More
by Timothy Mowl.
Murray, 182 pp., £14.99, March 2000,
“... and smug shading into bitter. How ironic, in view of later developments and the argument of Timothy Mowl’s book, that Nikolaus Pevsner’s first visit to England, in 1930, was to research a new topic: Englishness in art. For all its claims to be polemical, from the typographically ingenious dust-jacket inwards, Stylistic Cold Wars is little more ... ”