1914 the Avant-Gardes at War: Cat. Bundeskunsthalle Bonn Schneede Uwe M.
The great retrospect in the anniversary yearOn account of a technological and material deployment beyond all human scope, the First World War ranks as the seminal catastrophe of the twentieth century,…
Specifikacia 1914 the Avant-Gardes at War: Cat. Bundeskunsthalle Bonn Schneede Uwe M.
The great retrospect in the anniversary yearOn account of a technological and material deployment beyond all human scope, the First World War ranks as the seminal catastrophe of the twentieth century, a century which would reach its moral nadir in the Nazi's political programme of total war and extermination. But the worlds that collapsed in 1914 in a conflict involving seventy million soldiers in Europe, Africa and Asia and which would cost the lives of seventeen million people, had already become fragile in the years before; a number of writers, musicians and artists had long since become weary of these worlds and, like many of their -fellow countrymen, positively -celebrated the outbreak of hostil-ities. Franz Marc, in keeping with countless statements by his contemporaries, summed up this spirit as follows: In our era of great struggle for new art, we do not fight as
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