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With all the wit, knowledge and wisdom of one of the UK''s foremost cultural commentators, Stephen Bayley takes the reader on a satirical roller-coaster ride through the world of art and design in the late 20th century.

''Brilliantly drawn ..the pages are full of Wildean paradoxes'' The Spectator
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Someone once said you can find beauty anywhere. But all Eustace Dunne can see is ugliness.
The buildings are grey, the people are tired and unimaginative, the food is inedible and life is drab, drab, drab.

Growing up in an England ravaged by the Second World War, Eustace resolves to make things beautiful again. A mercurial stint in art school gives him a springboard into a world that is changing so fast you have to hold on tight to keep up. And in that world, ambition, timing and a modicum of talent can transform you into anything you want to be.

Before long he''s an artist, a designer, a restaurate

The Art of Living

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      Publisher Penguin Random House Group
      Imprint Transworld
      Published 7/14/2022
      ISBN-13 9781529176896
      978-1529176896
      ISBN-10 1529176891
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      Art & Photography History of art

      Description

      Book Synopsis

      With all the wit, knowledge and wisdom of one of the UK''s foremost cultural commentators, Stephen Bayley takes the reader on a satirical roller-coaster ride through the world of art and design in the late 20th century.

      ''Brilliantly drawn ..the pages are full of Wildean paradoxes'' The Spectator
      ______________________________

      Someone once said you can find beauty anywhere. But all Eustace Dunne can see is ugliness      .
      The buildings are grey, the people are tired and unimaginative, the food is inedible and life is drab, drab, drab.

      Growing up in an England ravaged by the Second World War, Eustace resolves to make things beautiful again. A mercurial stint in art school gives him a springboard into a world that is changing so fast you have to hold on tight to keep up. And in that world, ambition, timing and a modicum of talent can transform you into anything you want to be.

      Before long he''s an artist, a designer, a restaurate

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