Skip navigation
London Review of Books Christmas Books

Political Purposes

Frances Spalding

  • New Art New World: British Art in Postwar Society by Margaret Garlake
  • Cultural Offensive: America’s Impact on British Art since 1945 by John Walker

This article is not currently available online. Buy reprint of this article.

Frances Spalding’s books include The Tate: A History, The Bloomsbury Group and Whistler.

From the archive

In Hackney
Iain Sinclair on Steve Dilworth

At the Royal Scottish Academy
Eleanor Birne: Ron Mueck

In Venice
Hal Foster at the Biennale

At Tate Britain
David Craig: Mountain Art

At the Serpentine
Paul Myerscough on Cy Twombly