Andrew Lambirth

The Imperial War Museum finds a deadly place to display first world war masterpieces

Plus: at the Morley Gallery it is the popular arts that have produced some of most poignant and unfamiliar images

‘A Battery Shelled’, 1919, by Percy Wyndham Lewis [© iwm art 2747] 
issue 13 September 2014
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  • Truth and Memory: British Art of the First World War

    Imperial War Museum, London, until 8 March 2015

  • The Great War as Recorded through the Fine and Popular Arts

    Morley Gallery, 61 Westminster Bridge Road, SE1, until 2 October

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