The Great War and Cultural Memory. Thiepval Memorial to the Missing of the Somme.

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The Great War and Cultural Memory

Thiepval Memorial to the Missing of the Somme

Thiepval (Sir Edwin Lutyens, )

Tyne Cot cemetery

Menin Gate (Ypres)

Menin Gate

Menin Gate (inside of the earch)

War memorial (Aldeburgh, Suffolk)

Sir Edwin Lutyens: Cenotaph, London „Curiously symptomatic – that thing. Monument to the dread of swank – most characteristic” (20). Post-war aversion to „the fine, the large, the florid [...] No far-sighted views, no big schemes, no great principles” (Sir Lawrence Monk in John Galsworthy: The White Monkey, 1924

The Cenotaph in Whitehall

Remembrance poppies

David Jones: Soldier in Trench

Sir William Orpen: Soldiers Resting at the Front

Eric Kennington: Gassed and Wounded

Richard Nevinson: La patrie

Richard Nevinson: Paths of Glory

John Singer Sargent. Gassed

Eric Kennington: Making Soldiers (The Gas Mask)

Percy Smith: Men in Gas Masks

Nevinson: French Troops Resting

Nevinson:Column on March

Nevinson: Returning to the Trenches

Richard Nevinson: Night Arrivals

Paul Nash: Ypres Salient at Night

Wyndham Lewis: A Battery Shelled

Wyndham Lewis: Cover of the war issue of Blast

Paul Nash: Menin Road

Richard Nevinson: After a Push

William Orpen: Zonnebeke

Paul Nash: We Are Making a New World

From Abel Gance: J’accuse

J’accuse

Percy Smith: Death Awed

Percy Smith: Death Ponders

Percy Smith: Death Refuses

Otto Dix: Der Krieg tryptich ( )