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Fumbling With The Raw Materials

M ost great artists begin as mimics. They do not, as Clara Schumann claimed Brahms did, come into the world ‘ready-made’. Manet prided himself on painting ‘straight from......

The Unease Of The Distant East

D. J. Taylor T HE I NDIA H OUSE by William Palmer Cape, £16.99, pp. 249, ISBN 0224072978 ✆ £14.99 (plus £2.25 p&p) 0870 800 4848 D efying the geographical promise of its title,......