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Howard reviews 'Five Days in London: May 1940' by John Lukacs.

Frontmatter --EDITORIAL PREFACE --BIBLIOGRAPHICAL SURVEY --CONTENTS --Introduction --PROBLEMS OF ECONOMIC GROWTH --I. Agriculture And The Political Scientist --II. The Threshold Of Economic Growth --III. Social Pre-Conditions And Effects Of Moving Over The Threshold Of Economic Development --IV. Shares Of Labor And Capital In The Gross Domestic Product Of 40 Countries In The Decade 1953-1962 --V. How Not To Develop A Country: An Essay In Economic Pathology --Agriculture --VI. Lack Of Institutional Flexibility In Agriculture --VII. Agricultural Turning Points In Economic Development --VIII. Three Concepts Of Agricultural Over-Population --IX. Problems Of Socialist Agriculture --Yugoslavia --X. Economics Of Socialism In Jugoslavia: The Third Stage -- The Reform --XI. Some Aspects Of The Policy Of Worker's Income In Yugoslavia

When Aristotle asked at what particular moment we can say that an army is fleeing, which is certainly not when individual soldiers start leaving the battlefield, he formulated a problem that is important also for today's art history: are there any moments in the history of art that can be called turning points? In individual artistic careers, such points are related to crises, allowing the artist to overcome an impasse and find a way toward reaching a goal. Quite often, such a turn occurs suddenly, at some particular moment which ancient Greeks called the kairos. The changes in art approached en bloc also happen thanks to the background of values and some goal of artistic creation. A turning point may imply overcoming a crisis or a period of decline and decadence – always a state of affairs defined in negative terms. A separate case is definitely a political decree that triggers off a change, which implies violence committed on culture. Finally, in academic art history a turning point may be related not only with a crisis, but also with evolution. It's perception is relative, but because of that the history of art can be rewritten.