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|title=Summers of Discontent
|author=Raymond Tallis and Julian Spalding
|publisher=Wilmington Square Books
|date=September 2014
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|summary=An in-depth look at the human need for the arts and why they are created.
|cover=1908524405
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Raymond Tallis is what some people may refer to as a Renaissance Man. He is a doctor (specifically, a neurologist), a philosopher, a poet and a cultural critic. ''Summers of Discontent: The Purpose of the Arts Today'' is a collection of excerpts from Tallis’s numerous other works, extracted and collated by Julian Spalding – curator and Tallis’ contemporary. It’s a testament to the free-flowing, all-encompassing way in which Tallis writes that these excerpts sit next to each other seamlessly; they feel like one complete discussion, which is an achievement in itself.