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Under Siege: Literary Life in London, 1939-1945

Arts & Photography

HEWISON, Robert

History & Criticism

Oxford University Press

Deals with the difficult condition in London puhblishing and British literary life in the 1940s, the leading novelists and poets in the postwar years, the arrival of the Angry Young Men in the theatre in the mid-1950s, and the revival of British painting in these years.

In Anger: British Culture in the Cold War, 1945-60

History

Europe

In Too Much Robert Hewison tells the story of a tumultuous decade-and-a-half when, more than at any time in our history, the arts were the battleground for the conflicting forces of social change. The new affluence of the Sixties released the pent-up energy of a generation of artists, writers, poets and performers who rejected the cultural conformism of the Fifties. This energy found new forms, from Pop Art to pop music, from fringe theater to performance poetry, and helped to create the semi-mythical image of "Swinging London".The book covers such cultural icons as The Beatles, Mary Quant, David Hockney, and Harold Pinter. Hewison shows that in spite of the political disenchantment that followed, the counter-culture of the Sixties had a profound influence on the world of the arts. Between 1970 and 1975 the freedoms secured--and the conservative responses provoked--set the terms for the cultural conditions of today.This is the third and final volume of Robert Hewison's much praised contemporary cultural history, 'The Arts in Britain since 1939'.

Too Much: Art and Society in the Sixties, 1960-75

Definitive, concise, and very interesting... From William Shakespeare to Winston Churchill, the Very Interesting People series provides authoritative bite-sized biographies of Britain's most fascinating historical figures - people whose influence and importance have stood the test of time. Each book in the series is based upon the biographical entry from the world-famous Oxford Dictionary of National Biography.

John Ruskin (Very Interesting People Series)

Under siege: Literary life in London, 1939-1945

Politics & Social Sciences

Social Sciences

Weidenfeld and Nicolson

In Anger: Culture in the Cold War, 1945-60

Literature & Fiction

Littlehampton Book Services Ltd.

Venice represented John Ruskin’s ideal of civic society—“The Paradise of Cities,” where culture, government, and faith existed in creative harmony. In this elegant and compelling book, Robert Hewison traces Ruskin’s long and intricate relationship with the city. He shows how Ruskin shed his earlier Romantic vision of the city and developed a harder, clearer conception of neglected Gothic Venice through an intense study of the city's physical fabric that would change the international understanding of the city. 
Drawing on the rich resources of Ruskin’s drawings, architectural notebooks, and manuscripts (including previously unpublished daguerreotypes from Ruskin’s own collection), Hewison offers fresh insights into both Ruskin and nineteenth-century Venice and reveals how Ruskin’s work and his connection with the city from youth to old age have helped to shape the image of the Venice we know today.

Ruskin on Venice: "The Paradise of Cities"

Yale University Press

Reissued to mark the 20th anniversary of the birth of "Monty Python's Flying Circus", this case study in censorship describes the barrage of hostility provoked by the Python film "The Life of Brian". It traces the editorial pressures exerted on the Python team by the BBC, their lawsuit with ABC Television in the USA concerning American censorship of their television programmes, and the international ramifications of "The Life of Brian" affair. The author also provides a detailed analysis of the Pythons at work.

Monty Python, the case against irreverence, scurrility, profanity, vilification, and licentious abuse (An Evergreen book)

Politics & Government

GROVE PRESS

With deliberate provocation Robert Hewison's book sets out to protect the present and the future of life in Britain from their most dangerous enemy: a creeping takeover by the past. He sets today's obsession with yesterday in the context of a climate of social and political decline. The economic uncertainties and cultural convulsions of post-war life have made the past seem a pleasanter and safer place. But how true is that image of the past, and whose past is it, anyway? Hewison questions the way institutions like the National Trust are helping to create a past that never was. While the real economy crumbles, a new force is taking over: the Heritage Industry, a movement dedicated to turning the British Isles into one vast open-air museum. Robert Hewison's witty polemic is illustrated with expressive drawings by the artist, Chris Orr and specially commissioned photographs by Allan Titmuss.

The heritage industry: Britain in a climate of decline (A Methuen paperback)

Methuen Publishing, Ltd.

In Too Much Robert Hewison tells the story of a tumultuous decade-and-a-half when, more than at any time in our history, the arts were the battleground for the conflicting forces of social change.  The new affluence of the Sixties released the pent-up energy of a generation of artists, writers, poets and performers who rejected the cultural conformism of the Fifties.  This energy found new forms, from Pop Art to pop music, from fringe theater to performance poetry, and helped to create the semi-mythical image of "Swinging London".The book covers such cultural icons as The Beatles, Mary Quant, David Hockney, and Harold Pinter.  Hewison shows that in spite of the political disenchantment that followed, the counter-culture of the Sixties had a profound influence on the world of the arts. Between 1970 and 1975 the freedoms secured--and the conservative responses provoked--set the terms for the cultural conditions of today.This is the third and final volume of Robert Hewison's much praised contemporary cultural history, 'The Arts in Britain since 1939'.

Too much: Art and society in the Sixties, 1960-75

METHUEN

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