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Mark Wallinger and Mary Warnock, eds., Art for All? Their Policies and Our Culture. London: Peer, 2000. 183 pages, [pound]18. (For information, contact piertrust@btinternet.com)

AT THE DAWN of the postwar Labour government, its policy architect, Aneurin Bevan, depicted Britain as "an island of coal surrounded by a sea of fish." It was a memorable image of the nation's natural assets, and it captured his own party's midcentury appetite for nationalizing them. Fifty years later, film honcho David Puttnam offered an update: Britain had become "an island of creativity ...

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