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The symposium papers are presented as academic chapters with endnotes and full bibliographies. They include an introduction by Dominique Fleischmann, the sculptor’s son; ‘Arthur Fleischmann’s Background, Family, Schooling and Early Artistic Life’ by Thomas Lorman; ‘Recollections of the Establishment of the Arthur Fleischmann Museum’ by Štefan Holčik; ‘Arthur Fleischmann and Interwar Slovak Modernism’ by Marianna Oravcová; ‘Arthur Fleischmann’s Ceramic Sculptures and Artefacts from the Interwar Period’ by Zuzana Francová; ‘Arthur Fleischmann in Bali’ by Gianni Orsini; ‘Arthur Fleischmann in Australia’ by Joanna Barnes and Jim Bertouch; ‘Lot’s Wife. An Old Story in a New Material’ by Philip Ward-Jackson; ‘Arthur Fleischmann’s Homage to Barry Humphries. An Unrealised Project’ by Philip Ward-Jackson; ‘The Corporate Patrons of Arthur Fleischmann and Peter László Péri: Disparate Responses to Two Hungarian-born Sculptors in Cold War Britain, c.1948-1967’ by Robert Burstow; and ‘Parallel Lives? Arthur Fleischmann and Willi Soukop: Two Émigré Sculptors in London’ by Sarah MacDougall .