Augustus John by Holroyd, Michael -- Read -- Imperial Library of Trantor

Index

Cover Welcome Page Contents Epigraph Preface PART I: The Years of Innocence

CHAPTER I: LITTLE ENGLAND BEYOND WALES

1. 'Mama's dead!' 2. The Responsible Parties 3. Life with Father 4. A Crisis of Identity

CHAPTER II: 'SLADE SCHOOL INGENIOUS'

1. New Students - Old Masters 2. Water-legend 3.·A Singular Group 4. Flammondism 5. From among the Living... 6. …Into 'Moral Living'

CHAPTER III: LOVE FOR ART'S SAKE

1. Evil at Work 2. Liverpool Sheds and Romany Flotsam 3. What Comes Naturally 4. Team Spirit 5. Candid White and Matching Green

CHAPTER IV: MEN MUST PLAY AND WOMEN WEEP

1. Keeping up the Game 2. At the Crossroads 3. From a View to a Birth 4. Channel Crossing 5. A Seaside Change 6. 'Here's to Love!'

CHAPTER V: BUFFETED BY FATE

1. The Battle of the Babies 2. Images of Yeats 3. All Boys Brave and Beautiful 4. Or Something 5. Ethics and Rainbows 6. Inlaws and Outlaws 7. In the Roving Line 8. Fatal Initiations 9. Italian Style, French Found

CHAPTER VI: REVOLUTION 1910

1. What They Said at the Time 2. What He Said 3. What He Said about Them 4. What Happened 5. What Next?

PART II: The Years of Experience

CHAPTER VII: BEFORE THE DELUGE

1. A Summer of Poetry 2. The Second Mrs Strindberg 3. Cavaliers and Eggheads 4. Chronic Potential

CHAPTER VIII: HOW HE GOT ON

1. Marking Time 2. The Virgin's Prayer 3. Corrupt Coteries 4. Augustus Does His Bit

CHAPTER IX: ARTIST OF THE PORTRAITS

1. Everybody's Doing It 2. Surviving Friends, Women and Children: an A to Z 3. Faces and Tales 4. Methods and Places 5. Undiscovered Countries

CHAPTER X: THE WAY THEY LIVED THEN

1. Fryern Court 2. A Long Love Affair with Drink 3. In Spite of Everything or Because of It 4. His Fifties, Their Thirties 5. Children of the Great 6. Barren Our Lives

CHAPTER XI: THINGS PAST

1. Black Out 2. Fragments 3. The Morning After 4. A Way Out

Preview Appendices

One. Desecration of Saint Paul's Two. John's Pictures at the New English Art Club Three. The Chelsea Art School Prospectus Four. 'To Iris Tree': A parody of Arthur Symons Five. The John Beauty Chorus Six. John's Pictures at the Royal Academy Seven. Augustus John: Chronology and Intinerary Eight. Locations of John Manuscripts

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