Fiction Chronicle

‘War as It Is’: The Art of Muirhead Bone, C. R. W. Nevinson and Paul Nash, 1916—17

“…He indicated a wide audience for Bone's work and photographs would evidently not satisfy the need; when Masterman asked Bone to undertake portraits of Generals he was 496 certain that drawings would be much more successful than photographs.F It was said that Bone's drawings of munitions works on the Home Front would reach a wide general public in England, including the 'engineering workman public, ... ' as well as serve to advertise British industrial capacities to a postwar trade world. 43 The American publishers of the work, however, believed that Bone's appeal was confined to 'an educated and artistic class already entirely pro-ally'. What was needed was the means to motivate 'a numerically large half-educated (and hence apathetic) body of voters'.…”