[ePub] Who I Am and What I Want by David Shrigley in Arts-Photography

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Stanley Spencer; Paul Nash; Mark Gertler; Richard Nevinson and Dora Carrington were five of the most exciting; influential and innovative British artists of the twentieth century. From diverse backgrounds; they met in the years before the Great War as students at the Slade School of Art; where they formed part of what their teacher Henry Tonks described as the schools last crisis of brilliance. To the Bloomsbury Group critic Roger Fry they were les jeunes -- the Young British Artists of their day. As their talents evolved; they became Futurists; Vorticists and Bloomsberries; and befriended the leading writers and intellectuals of the time; from Virginia Woolf and Rupert Brooke to D. H. Lawrence and Katherine Mansfield. They led the way in fashion with their avant-garde clothes and haircuts; they slept with their models and with prostitutes; their tempestuous love affairs descended into obsession; murder and suicide. And as Europe plunged into the madness of the War to end Wars; they responded to its horror with all the passion and genius they could muster.