John Craxton: A Life of Gifts

CONTENTS\nPART ONE\n1. Setting Off\n2. Open House\n3. Wood of St. John\n4. Harold and Essie\n5. Nomad Child\n6. A Life in Art\n7. Wild Dorset\n8. Beautiful Visits\nPART TWO\n9. A Private War\n10. Bang in the Blitz\n11. Dreamer in Landscape\n12. John and Lucian\n13. Brothers in Arts\n14. Exquisite Corpses\n15. Welsh Arcadia\n16. The Poet’s Eye\n17. Less than Liberation\n18. The Great Escape\nPART THREE\n19. Spring in Athens\n20. Rites of Passage\n21. Lucian Again\n22. Voyages of Discovery\n23. Ravisher of Eyes\n24. On a Tightrope\n25. Going Native\n26. Daphnis and Chloë\n27. Aegean Adventure\n28. Bloody Blighty\n29. I Spy Trouble\n30. The Sea Change\n31. Lotus Eating\n32. New Muse\n33. To the Lighthouse\n34. Arresting Times\n35. Phoenix Nests\n36. Portent of Tragedy\n37. Eclipse of Apollo\n38. Into the Ravine\n39. Athens of the North\nPART FOUR\n40. A Time of Gifts\n41. The Last of Lucian\n42. Hull and Back\n43. Painting Pleasure\n44. King of Chania\n45. Growing Young\n46. Charmed Life\nEpilogue\nSources\nCredits\nPicture Credits\nIndex