The Auto-Erotic Device and the Whisky Bottle
Peter Campbell
- Dance till the stars come down by Frances Spalding
Hodder, 271 pp, £25.00, May 1991, ISBN 0 340 48555 8 - Keith Vaughan by Malcolm Yorke
Constable, 288 pp, £25.00, October 1990, ISBN 0 09 469780 9
John Minton’s face is familiar – if not from the self-portrait now in the National Portrait Gallery, then from the likeness he commissioned from Lucian Freud and bequeathed to the Royal College of Art. It is very long, large-eyed, hollow-cheeked, with a receding chin and dark tousled hair. Photographs suggest that the self-portrait is a better physical likeness; the truth about his emotional state seems to lie with Lucian Freud. The manic side of his personality shows only in photographs, where the mouth stretches into a toothy grin. His work, once famous, is now probably best remembered by those who saw it when it first appeared in Penguin New Writing, or on book jackets and in magazines.
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