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John Cairney presents Mackintosh in 1930, looking
back on his life and work from a garden in Hampstead
shortly before his death from cancer of the tongue.
We see a neglected Glasgow architect and designer
as an artist, who had a clear vision of what art
can offer. Deeming utility to be the primary function
of art, he created the distinctive sense of line
and tone that defines his unique, figurative style.
Though in danger today of being swallowed up in
his own posthumous mythology, and the contemporary
craze for 'Mackintoshery', Toshie is still his
own man. His best work has had the vigour to survive
despite its fashionable admirers. He had much
to say about art and was not afraid to say it.
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