List of figures Acknowledgements Timeline Introduction: William Johnstone: Artist and Teacher 1. Journeys: From Edinburgh to Paris, circa 1919 to 1927 A Borders Childhood An Edinburgh Education William Richard Lethaby Patrick Geddes D'Arcy Wentworth Thompson To Paris and beyond André Lhote Method and Materials Elsewhere 2. Landscapes: Between America and the Borders, circa 1928 to 1949 Scottishness An international artist Johnstone in America The nineteen forties Abstract painting Industrial design 3. Time: A Point in Time, 1929/1937 Time Experiment Chasm Change A Place in Time Theosophy 4. Children: From Child Art to Man Art, 1941 A history of child art Froebel and Ciek Marion Richardson Herbert Read Johnstone and R.R. Tomlinson Writing on child art Creative Art in England Children as Artists Child Art to Man Art New methods 5. Art School: Camberwell (1938-46) and Central (1947-60) Interdisciplinarity Responsiveness Internationalism Adventurous Experiment 6.

Poets: MacDiarmid, Scott, Muir, 1930s and 1970s A New Scottish Renaissance Endarkenment: Unreasoned Relationship with Art Re-emergence 7. Peers and Painters: Scottish Artists, 1960 to 1980 A Borders Return Abstract Landscapes Portraits and Patrons Miraculous Objects Plaster Reliefs Tachism 8. Reflections: In Retrospect and Conclusion Appendix Bibliography.