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SVEN BERLIN (1911-1999) 'Disturbance in the West' Manuscript (complete) Photocopy of typed manuscript with hand written annotations contained within a ringbound folder, 206 pages. Note: Disturbance in the West, 1985. Originally commissioned by Tambimutu (publisher of The Dark Monarch) the project collapsed when his finances failed. This is an account of Cornwall and the Scillies between 1945 and 1985, based upon notebooks kept in 1945. Portions used in Virgo in Exile, Coat of Many Colours and The Distance is Starlight. Set in the same period as The Dark Monarch. The artist John Wells spoke the words of the title to Sven Berlin, anticipating the St Ives artists split into traditional and modernist factions.
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