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Friday, 17 September 2010

We are making a new world

Nash served as a war artist in both WW1 & WW2, and was deeply appalled by what he saw. 'We Are Making A New World' (1918) is strangely, tragically beautiful, the title savagely sarcastic.

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  1. It's astounding that after bearing witness to the utter carnage of the first war, and conveying this in his work, poor Nash had to see it all happen again.

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