Perfection, of a kind, was what he was after, And the poetry he invented was easy to understand; He knew human folly like the back of his hand, And was greatly interested in armies and fleets; When he laughed, respectable senators burst with laughter, And when he cried the little children died in the streets.
by W. H. Auden
Free Speech 1940 Grace Golden (1904-1993) 1940Let a Thousand Flowers Bloom 2000 Anselm Kiefer born 1945Kosciusko (Illustration to ‘The Pleasures of Hope’) c.1835 Joseph Mallord William Turner (1775-1851)[no title] 1979-82 Jenny Holzer born 1950
Featured image is a detail from: Maquette of a Monument Symbolising the Liberation of the Spirit by Antoine Pevsner 1952.
