In 1914 The Arts Seemed On The Verge Of New Things. Then The War Happened...
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As Rupert Brooke, a very different kind of sensibility, put it, many artists welcomed the onset of war `as swimmers into cleanness leaping`. A short and sharply brutal conflict was just what art needed finally to euthanise the past and slough off the fusty clutter of landscapes, nudes and the strictures of the academy. A […]