A Different Avant-Garde
Spectacular, large and colourful – this is how comic strips captured their audience. Around 1897, the middle classes, working classes and the army of immigrants were equally fascinated by the unfamiliar visual experience they encountered in US newspapers. Read more.
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Has the Fitzwilliam lost the hang of things?