Table of Contents

Introduction: 'Art in a city is not a static affair'
List of illustrations
Acknowledgements

1. Problem and place
2. Views of the past
3. Established institutions
4. Art in Public
5. Questions of taste
6. Educating the eye
7. The artists
8. The wider scene
9. Points of doctrine
10. A plan of campaign

Appendices:
A Questionnaire: the visual arts in Liverpool
B Five cities and the visual arts
C Project for a 'Look at Liverpool' exhibition

Index

About the Author

John Willett was born in Hampstead in 1917. During the war he was an intelligence officer based in England, the Middle East and Italy. In 1951 he wrote his acclaimed book The Theatre of Bertolt Brecht (Willett was a friend of Brecht). In 1960 he became Assistant Editor of the TLS where he stayed until 1967.