LS Lowry's rage against the machine
Lowry's critics have used the fact of his paintings' repetitiveness against him, but he brilliantly reveals what happens when human beings couple with the industrial world, says Jeanette WintersonIn 1916, LS Lowry had missed his train to Manchester. "It would be about four o'clock and perhaps there was some peculiar condition of the atmosphere or something. But as I got to the top of the steps I saw the Acme Mill; a …