Word: interbellum
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Dates: during 1960-1969
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...most indestructible enfant terrible. As far back as anyone can remember, Duchamp has exulted in controversy. In 1913 his Nude Descending a Staircase, described at the time as "an explosion in a shingle factory," was the belly blow of Manhattan's Armory Show. He dabbled in dada in interbellum Paris by drawing a delicate mustache and goatee on a Mona Lisa reproduction. As a surrealist masquerading under the pseudonym of Rrose Selavy (c'est la vie), he exhibited his portrait on a perfume bottle, submitted a urinal titled Fountain to a 1917 salon, where it was hidden behind...
...Powell, is of Welsh origin, with family connections with Army and "County," went to Eton and Oxford, and is currently engaged in literary criticism. Previous installments have taken Nick through school and university, and have looked fixedly at English high life and business. The current episode concerns that curious interbellum miscegenation between Society and the Arts dealt with so brilliantly in the satiric masterpiece of Wyndham Lewis, The Apes of God. Its period is that Slough of Despond known as the Late Thirties, and nowhere else has the moral despair of that time been better described. It calls to mind...
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