Nevinson ‘Bad Boy’ Modernist

A talk by Sue Malvern, In partnership with University of Leeds. CRW Nevinsion produced some of the most recognised images of the First World War which helped define how the War was seen in artistic terms. Later, in 1936, the ‘Star’ newspaper called Nevinson ‘eternally the bad boy … among the artists’. From 1930 Nevinson exhibited a series of allegories, sometimes called his ‘problem pictures’. These became increasingly political as the threat of fascism became more overt. In the same period there was renewed interest in his war paintings from the First World War. Sue Malvern unpicks the contradictions in Nevinson’s politics and practice beginning with his well-known war works 1914-18 and considers their reputation in the 30s and beyond.

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