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I have been leant some back issues of Studio which have made really interesting reading. An article by Alexander Watt in the March 1960 issue comments on interviews held with six foreign artists working in Paris. One, Christoforou, born in London in 1921 of Greek parents, decided to move to Paris in 1957 because "In England I had the good fortune to have had the support of a few private individuals, but otherwise ..... the official art world, controlled as it is by a few pompous chauvinists, has turned art into an instrument of national prestige in a crude and prejudiced sense." Another, Grimm, complained that "Art is no longer a matter of creating: it has become a mass production."