That autumn, the tectonic plates of Edwardian England were shifting in every direction. The explosive impact of the show at the Grafton Galleries sprang from and fed back into the pent-up appetite for reform which had been suppressed during the summer of mourning for the King. Frank Rutter, the art critic of The Sunday Times, cast the Post-Impressionists as front-line warriors in a universal struggle in which painting and politics were indivisibly linked. Provocatively entitled Revolution in Art, his little book on Cézanne, Gauguin, Van Gogh ‘and Other Modern Painters’ was dedicated, in bold
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