About the Author

Richard Cork is an art critic, historian, broadcaster, and curator. His award-winning books include Vorticism and Abstract Art in the Machine Age; Art Beyond the Gallery in Early Twentieth-century England, winner of the Sir Banister Fletcher Award in 1985; David Bomberg, 1987; A Bitter Truth: Avant-garde Art and the Great War, 1994; and Jacob Epstein, 1999. A four-volume collection of his critical writings on modern art was published in 2003.