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Exhibitions

Are the British too polite to be any good at surrealism?

Possibly. That said, the best of the Pallant House Gallery's Spanish civil war show, Conscience and Conflict, are a revelation

22 November 2014

9:00 AM

22 November 2014

9:00 AM

Conscience and Conflict: British Artists and the Spanish Civil War

Pallant House Gallery, until 15 February 2015

The Paris World’s Fair of 1937 was more than a testing ground for artistic innovation; it was a battleground for political ideologies. The Imperial eagle spread its wings over the German Pavilion; the Soviet hammer swung above the Russian Pavilion; and the Spanish Pavilion unveiled Picasso’s shocking monument to the civilian dead of the bombed city of Guernica, raising the clenched fist of the Spanish Republic in the capital of non-interventionist France.

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