This paper discusses the effect of World
War I on British art and follows the transformation and disintegration of Futurism
and Vorticism from 1914 - c. 1920. In particular, it examines Percy Wyndham Lewis, Christopher Nevinson and Paul Nash and includes a visual analysis of the major works of these
artists during and shortly after the
War. It also looks at the British Pictoral Propaganda Department and Muirhead Bone and various government comissions from 'war artists'. It argues that the war effectively dissolved England's only true modern movement and that the war had dramatically different effects on Wyndham Lewis, Nevinson, and Nash.