Political Purposes
Frances Spalding: Art in postwar Britain, 15 April 1999
New Art New World: British Art in Postwar Society
by Margaret Garlake.
Yale, 279 pp., £35, July 1998,0 300 07292 9 Show More
by Margaret Garlake.
Yale, 279 pp., £35, July 1998,
Cultural Offensive: America’s Impact on British Art since 1945
by John Walker.
Pluto, 304 pp., £45, September 1988,0 7453 1321 3 Show More
by John Walker.
Pluto, 304 pp., £45, September 1988,
“... passive role which the Arts Council adopted as a conduit between artist and public: a policy, Margaret Garlake remarks, ‘designed less to inspire than to avoid giving offence’. Despite this, the major exhibitions which the Arts Council mounted at the Tate Gallery during the immediate postwar years greatly enlivened its near-moribund exhibition ... ”
