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At the outset, Crow shows how the term Modernist meant something on the streets of Soho before it gained wide currency in aesthetics and the fine arts. Key players seem, at times, like characters in a play or a novel, close to the fictional type of MacInnes's story - embodying what Crow calls "a composite identity, implicitly collective in character". Crow rescues the Mod from these diverging poles of caricature - and from the notion, more specifically, of working-class upward mobility, an idea frequently pinned to the pro-Tory quip of Mark Feld (later Marc Bolan): "They're for the rich, so I'm for them". [Extracted from the article]

The article reviews the books "Francis Bacon: Revelations," by Mark Stevens and Annalyn Swan, and "The Death of Francis Bacon," by Mark Stevens and Annalyn Swan.