Summary
AS A BOY, the experience of seeing the Royal Scottish Academy at the Festival - filled, in successive years, with exhibitions of Czanne, Monet and Gauguin - has a lot to do with the fact that I am writing these pages now.
Those exhibitions, put on by Robert Ponsonby, Edinburgh International Festival director from 1956-60, in collaboration with the Royal Scottish Academy, were a life-changing experience. But since then, although the three weeks of the EIF have provided a showcase for art in Scotland, it has played a minimal role in the event itself.See the full content of this document
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National Treasures
I argued the case with several directors, and really got under John Drummond's skin by suggesting that all the EIF venues together filled to capacity every night couldn't come close to the attendance for the visual arts. I raised it with Brian McMaster, but he wouldn't budge either. The galleries were too independent to enlist in what he saw as his f...
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