Demobbed dreamers bring back the zing – Postwar Modern review

Barbican, London
Fitting this exploding era into one show is impossible – but this fascinating exhibition is still crammed with surprises and delights, from austere pots and pans to a husband painted as cross-dressing Renaissance bride
Sixty years after he painted it, you can still catch the reek of cheap oil paint and linseed oil coming off Leon Kossoff’s 1962 Willesden Junction, Early Morning. With its glutinous and heaving sea of wrinkled paint, Kossoff’s city is the colour