Summary
Admittedly, there are several fine things to be seen in this show, not least the Manet masked ball and the much more modernlooking Lautrec, the despairing Munch, and a bit of manic movement from the Futurists Carrá and Boccioni. There's a Beckmann café scene and two smoothly disturbing Magrittes, all three borrowed from private collections. Christian Schad's decadent three-quarter-length portrait hints at the lure of corruption.
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Exhibitions 1
Alternative historyFaces in the Crowd - Picturing Modern Life from Manet to TodayWhitechapel Art Gallery, until 6 MarchThe first part of the title of the Whitechapel's latest portmanteau show is taken from Ezra Pound's masterpiece of compression, the two-line poem 'In ...See the full content of this document
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