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In his major novels , D .H . Lawrence develops the figure of the modern artist that very closely resembles the flaneur as it is developed primarily in the work of Walter Benjamin . Both authors record images of the artist in response to the rise of the industrial complex in the modernist era . The artist becomes a "Man of the Crowd ," preserving his observations of the lower - and middle -classes within various artistic media . Lawrence's aesthetic values a vital sense of connection that prevents normal human interaction while simulatenously highlighting the necessity of experience . |