Author Description

Arts in Society comprises a set of lucid essays on photography and painting, films, design, TV and theatre, buildings and towns – discussion points about culture in the 60s and 70s. Contributors Angela Carter on male pin ups and on make- up John Berger on war photography and on Francis Bacon Michael Wood on John Lennon, Roy Lichenstein, A Clockwork Orange, Bob Dylan and WC Fields Reyner Banham on the potato crisp and on container terminals EP Thompson on Britain’s penchant for humbug Paul Barker on “Art Nouveau Riche” and on Kes Paul Meyersberg on If… Andrew Weiner on T. Rex and on Tom Jones Dennis Potter on TV Plays Albert Hunt on Joe Orton and on Morecambe and Wise …and more