The Secret War Against the Arts: How MI5 Targeted Left-Wing Writers and Artists, 1936-1956

Cover
Book title
Copyright
Contents
Glossary
List of Illustrations
Dramatis Personae
1 Hogarth and Branson
2 Art and Marx
3 ‘A Bastard of a War’
4 For the People of Spain
5 The Artist Who Sometimes Wears Sandals
6 Blacklist
7 ‘Are You For Stalin or For Us?’
8 Artist and Soldier
9 ‘Slimy with Self-Deception’
10 ‘One of the More Important Communists’
11 Clive in India
12 No Peace for MI5
13 Doris Lessing Reads Clive Branson
14 ‘Afterwards I’ll Paint All Right’
15 The Travels of Comrade Hogarth
16 The Artists’ Dilemmas
Plate section
17 A Communist Cell at the BBC?
18 Listed by Orwell
19 Austerity and Restriction
20 The Watched One
21 ‘Absolute Typical Stephen’
22 Paul Hogarth’s Defiant People
23 The Failing God?
24 The Party is Not Yet Over
25 Hogarth and Branson (2)
26 Lines from the Burma Front
27 Hogarth in China
28 Being a Red is Tough
29 Hogarth and Lessing go to Africa
30 Resignation
31 Burma 1944
32 Aftermath
33 Towards an Ending
Dramatis Personae: A Retrospective
Notes
Acknowledgements
Bibliography
Index
Back Cover