BBC Radio 3

The Great War was crucial to the development of the early avant-garde art movement in Europe. In this programme, Richard Cork explores how the conflict figured powerfully and in strikingly different ways, in the lives and work of leading international artists and poets. For anyone whose understanding of the cultural landscape during WWI is predicated on the writing of British poets such as Wilfred Owen or Siegfried Sassoon, this programme gives a view from the 'other side' where art was fuelled by rebellion and modernity.