19 JANUARY 1991, page 30

A Friend Of A Friend Of The Artist

Christopher Lloyd SEURAT: A BIOGRAPHY by John Rewald Thames & Hudson, £45, pp. 240 J ohn Rewald can fairly be described as the founder of modern Impressionist stu- dies in so......

Transference

for Graham Davies A moving tableau, so to speak. On the same couch, week after week, Talking of absence, I can see Its likeness bearing down on me: The ceiling blankness. But if......

Genuflection Or The Dirty Joke

William Scammell JAMES JOYCE: POEMS AND SHORTER WRITINGS edited by Richard Ellmann, A. Walton Litz and John Whittier- Ferguson Faber, £14.99, pp. 300 F or he's a jolly queer......