26 FEBRUARY 1983, page 30

Arts

No comparison John McEwen Peter Blake and James Barry: the Artist as Hero (Tate Gallery till 20 March. Barry's mural 'The Progress of Human Culture' can be viewed throughout the......

Shiva Naipaul

Peter Levi C ome years ago, the Hungarian govern- ment forbade the translation of an English novel because it failed to show the emerging peoples of the third world in their......