Upstart: James Stevens Curl on life in death

2002-09-03T00:00:00

The acceptance of certain tenets after 1945 demonstrated the poverty of modernism's language, especially where a response to death was required. The ghastliness of British crematoriums, the inarticulacy of late 20th-century commemoration and the feebleness of civic art demonstrate the awful pass to which we have come.

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