To rescue Kahlo from the clutches of the corporate art market, we need to acknowledge the overt and covert political dimensions of the work, demands GAVIN O’TOOLE
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Stolen Heritage: The Strange Death of Industrial England by Anthony Warwick-Ching
Invaluable account of how Britain's industry has been destroyed
CO-OPERATIVE BACKER: Tom King
If you can see past the relentless commodification you will be rewarded by enormously powerful work, suggests JENNY MITCHELL
CHRIS SEARLE revels in the one-off collaboration between an American polymath and a British Muslim, and detects the presence of their revolutionary forebear
GORDON PARSONS revels in an ebullient production of Shakespeare’s magical comedy
BRENT CUTLER welcomes a thoughtful analysis of the Erdogan regime, viewed through the evolving history of a neighbourhood in Istanbul
GORDON PARSONS regrets the price, but is dazzled by an outstandingly ambitious study of the way art restoration in particular, and culture in general was weaponised by the Nazis
THIS book is a unique study of how and why Britain’s enormous industrial development was halted and destroyed during the 1970s and 1980s.
Its author, Anthony Warwick-Ching, provides a sector-by-sector and company-by-company account, based on
extensive research and wide and expert knowledge.
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