Madmen in Metroland.

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  • Author(s): Prodger, Michael (AUTHOR)
  • Source:
    New Statesman. 11/27/2020, Vol. 149 Issue 5548, p48-48. 1p.
  • Additional Information
    • Subject Terms:
      Public art; Art movements; Subways; Modern art; Poster design
    • Abstract:
      The Critics: Arts Edward McKnight Kauffer - "Ted" to his friends - was hardly the first artist, before or since, to butt his head against financial necessity. Kauffer fought to make something of his idealism but eventually he succumbed, gave up on the idea of being a great modern artist, and followed the money into poster design and advertising. In the posters of this period Kauffer's influence was the japonisme that had proved so pervasive in the last decades of the previous century and had found its way into the art of everyone from Monet and Whistler to Van Gogh. [Extracted from the article]