London, Modernism, and 1914

Foreword Richard Cork; Introduction Michael J. K. Walsh; 1. 'A campaign of extermination': Walter Sickert and modernism in London in 1914 Jon Shirland; 2. W. B. Yeats in 1914: a cosmopolitan modernist and the 'great menace' of Nationalism Louise Blakeney Williams; 3. Jacob Epstein's Rock Drill: man and machine Andrew Causey; 4. Conflict 'Resolution': Wyndham Lewis's Blasts at war David A. Wragg; 5. 'Something is happening there': Early British modernism, the Great War and the 'Whitechapel Boys' Sarah MacDougall; 6. Inventing literary modernism at the outbreak of the Great War Pericles Lewis; 7. 'Touching civilisation in its tender mood': nationalism and art in the friendship between Henri Gaudier-Brzeska and Edward Wadsworth, 1914–15 Jonathan Black; 8. Remembrance/reconstruction: autobiography and the men of 1914 Deborah Parsons; 9. From 'freak pictures' to no art: art exhibitions in London 1914 through the eyes of the critics Dominika Buchowska; 10. Rewriting 1914: the Slade, Tonks, and war in Pat Barker's Life Class Alan Munton; Appendices; Bibliography; Index.