the main book, by vanessa nicolson, is excellently illustrated and researched ... but she sticks to the facts and so she doesn't really ask the question i need to answer ...
how did maurice go from being that sweet baby to becoming a part-time or temporary pornographer of [post-war/cold-war/state-sponsored?] violence ?
and which holder of the purse-strings commissioned the work on behalf of associated electrical industries, and how far was it's confrontational subject matter discussed ?
maybe vanessa nicolson's single paragraph about maurice lambert's war-time experience gives us a tenuous clue to his own attitude
... and maybe the following article, which popped up when i googled "corporate cold war art", might help to give some perspective to the nature of this commission ...
http://libcom.org/history/articles/cultural-cold-war/
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I think your research has brought together a powerful mix of facts, personalities, history and ideas. Excellent.I will watch this spot for more.
thanx lucas
there won't be much more to say about maurice unless some of his students have written a memoir
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