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Source ISBN: 9780007493449
Ebook Edition © September 2016 ISBN: 9780007493432
Version: 2017-08-02
To Colette, Jane and Fram
Contents
AESTHETE’S PROGRESS
THE NATIONAL GALLERY
16 The Listener and the Artists
WORLD WAR II
17 Packing Up: ‘Bury Them in the Bowels of the Earth’
18 The National Gallery at War
19 The Ministry of Information
ARTS PANJANDRUM
TELEVISION
27 Inventing Independent Television: ‘A Vital Vulgarity’
28 The Early Television Programmes
SALTWOOD 1953–68
CIVILISATION
31 Civilisation: The Background