Mark Haworth Booth
Studied English at the University of Cambridge in mid 1960s. In 1966 he and a fellow undergraduate got up a petition asking (successfully) that the University accept Jim Ede's offer of the gift of Kettle's Yard. He went round to E. M. Forster in his rooms at Kings College who signed. A week later got a postcard from him saying he now realised what he had signed and fully supported the petition as he was a friend of Jim's. Later studied Fine Art at Edinburgh and visited Jim there. Served as Curator of Photography at the Victoria and Albert Museum 1970-2004.
Interviewed: 2009-01-25By: Anna Sacdev
Length: 22 mins
Media: On 5 tracks on 1 CD with summary
Interview id: MYKY30
Jim meeting artist Joan Miró
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I mean, he loved telling stories about, for example, [Joan] Miró who I think he said he was having a coffee or tea with Miró at a Paris restaurant and there had recently been an assassination in Paris and there was suddenly the sound of an explosion, I suppose it would be in the fifties, and there was this sort of car back-firing, bang, and Miro said 'encore un president', another president bites the dust, so Jim would have a fund of stories to tell us over tea.
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