The death of a friend through the underfunding of the National Health Service is more serious to me than the possible destruction of life on earth. We must fight the State where it affects us most. Modernism made sexuality the legitimate centre of the arts. The actual balance between political action and sexual politics is perhaps best captured in Litvinov's exciting trilogy. It is not by highlighting sex that Modernists have excited the censor's ban.
Modernism is essentially shocking.
This prophetic vision is the key to Modernism. The past is more comfortable, in style and subject matter. Freedom indulged in its own nostalgia with its centenary mag., though I feel that such an accurate understanding of history is necessary if we are to go forward. As anarchists aim to liberate the individual from the power of money, they will continue to provide employment for censors. I fear I have provided a rather blunt offensive weapon for the task of art criticism.