CRISIS OF BRILLIANCE (PB)

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. They met at the Slade School of Art, where they formed what their teacher Henry Tonks described as the school's last 'crisis of brilliance'. They led the way in fashion; they slept with their models and with prostitutes; their tempestuous love affairs descended into obsession, murder and suicide. As Europe plunged into the 'War to end Wars', they responded to its horror with all the passion and genius they could muster.