“Look at this: a painting of a worker, crucified. Here is an image of poverty that shocks despite the obviousness of the metaphor. At the foot of the cross sits his grieving wife and dog. On his left some co-workers shake their fists at three Bullingdon Club types on the right. A soldier armed with a rifle protects the nabobs. In the background policemen on horses bop strikers. Is this a vision of now? Is it by Coldwar Steve? No – this is An Allegory of Social Strife, the work of Archibald Ziegler done sometime in the 1920s. Ziegler? Who he? Who knew we had our own George Grosz? ...”
Robert Greenham, On the Beach, 1934
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