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

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1 The Great War and Cultural Memory

2 Thiepval Memorial to the Missing of the Somme

3 Thiepval (Sir Edwin Lutyens, 1928-32)

4 Tyne Cot cemetery

5 Menin Gate (Ypres)

6 Menin Gate

7 Menin Gate (inside of the earch)

8 War memorial (Aldeburgh, Suffolk)

9 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

10 The Cenotaph in Whitehall

11 Remembrance poppies

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14 David Jones: Soldier in Trench

15 Sir William Orpen: Soldiers Resting at the Front

16 Eric Kennington: Gassed and Wounded

17 Richard Nevinson: La patrie

18 Richard Nevinson: Paths of Glory

19 John Singer Sargent. Gassed

20 Eric Kennington: Making Soldiers (The Gas Mask)

21 Percy Smith: Men in Gas Masks

22 Nevinson: French Troops Resting

23 Nevinson:Column on March

24 Nevinson: Returning to the Trenches

25 Richard Nevinson: Night Arrivals

26 Paul Nash: Ypres Salient at Night

27 Wyndham Lewis: A Battery Shelled

28 Wyndham Lewis: Cover of the war issue of Blast

29 Paul Nash: Menin Road

30 Richard Nevinson: After a Push

31 William Orpen: Zonnebeke

32 Paul Nash: We Are Making a New World

33 From Abel Gance: J’accuse

34 J’accuse

35 Percy Smith: Death Awed

36 Percy Smith: Death Ponders

37 Percy Smith: Death Refuses

38 Otto Dix: Der Krieg tryptich (1929-32)

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