Martin Gayford

Valuable reassessment of British art: Barbican’s Postwar Modern reviewed

This show succeeds in revealing numerous half-forgotten movements – and contains some out-and-out masterpieces

‘Big Bird’, 1965, by Frank Bowling. Credit: © Frank Bowling. All Rights Reserved, DACS 2021, photograph courtesy of the Victoria Gallery & Museum, University of Liverpool

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