Tanya HarrodHumankind: Ruskin Spear
Class, culture and art in 20th-century Britain
Tanya Harrod is an independent design historian, living in London, who writes widely on craft, art and design. Her major study, The Crafts in Britain in the Twentieth Century, was published in 1999. The Last Sane Man, her biography of the potter Michael Cardew, was published in 2012; for this book she was awarded the James Tait Black Prize for biography. She is co-editor of the The Journal of Modern Craft.
Prologue: Why Spear?
1. Hammersmith: boy & man
2. At the College and after
3. A Pacifist's War
4. Hammersmith in Darkness and Light: Making Life more complicated
5. A teacher among friends
6. An Academician entertains his Public: An Annunciation
7. Ruskin as peacenik: The Pleasures of Peace
8. Painting for money
9. Retrospective
