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A Bitter Truth : Avant-Garde Art and the Great War
A Bitter Truth AvantGarde Art and the Great War Author:Richard Cork The trauma of the First World War had an immensely powerful effect on the painters, sculptors, and printmakers who participated in it. Challenging propagandist views of the struggle, painters such as Meidner, Kandindsky, Chagall, Nevinson, Hartley, Beckmann, and Kirchner produced an extraordinary range of objective, expressionist, or allegorical... more » art that conveyed the immediacy and horror of their experiences and feelings. This arresting book by Richard Cork is the first to bring together and examine the full international array of images spawned by the Great War.« less