Mad Dogs and Englishmen

The social/individual aspects of history are something I find endlessly fascinating. I pointed out to someone that Steve is unlikely to have problems with homosexuality and would have been more than tangentially aware of both queer culture and that gay rights was a thing during his time and much earlier. It was fun watching their mind being blown, but also kind of sad. But how no one even thinks to look up whether abstract art was a new thing in the 40s (it wasn't, it pre-dates WWI even) confuses me.