Notes:
Includes bibliographical references (p. 509-563) and index.
Gift; Beth Hylen; 2012; 1000121327
Purchas; Alibris; 2012; 1000123498
Contents:
John --
'That's painting!' --
Stained glass and coastal gaiety --
Orchard's angel --
Going modern --
Axis --
Abstract and concrete --
'Look, stranger, at this island now' --
Not playboys but agents: 1937-8 --
Decrepit glory, pleasing decay: 1938-9 --
'The weather in our souls': 1939-40 --
Fawley bum --
War artist --
Stormy weather --
Renishaw and the Sitwells --
Topographical mania --
Sly liaisons --
Stern watching, mysterious sympathy --
Return to peace --
Working for the stage and with Britten --
'A firm shape among shadows' --
Cranko and Britten --
The turn of the screw --
Delegated art --
Coventry and cranks --
Ambiguous Venice --
Dark glasses at evensong --
Sacred or superstitious? --
Owen Wingrave --
Shell guides --
Pottery, tapestries, fireworks, and photographs --
Death in Venice --
Deaths and entrances --
An English garden --
Myfanwy.
