“The present ‘revolution’ in art is not a revolt against tradition at all. It is a more concerted attempt, on a wider and subtler basis (provided by recent research and technical facilities), to revive a sense that had been almost totally lost, as the Salons and Academies witnessed.
The only art at present time about which there is any reason to employ the word ‘revolutionary’, or that sentimentalist cliché ‘rebel’, is either inferior and stupid, or else consciously political art. For art is, in reality, one of the things Revolutions are about, and cannot therefore itself be Revolution.” Wyndham Lewis, Time and Western Man, Book I, ch. V, p. 24.
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