memorializng the war

• Otto Dix, Triptychon Der Krieg (War Triptych), 1929-32, tempera on wood, central panel 204 x 204 cm, side panels 204 x 102 cm each, Gemäldegalerie Neue Meister, Dresden.

• Center panel

Memorializing the War

• Bedroom of Hubert Rochereau

Phillipe Prost, Ring of Memory, Notre-Dame-de-Lorette, 2014

• Frederick Brooke, District of Columbia War Memorial, 1931

Fort Wayne’s Memorial Park

• Argonne —— ∮——Cantigny

Allen County and Fort Wayne their Tribute to the Glory of their Sons

Loyalty — Courage

Sacrifice — Victory

1917 —— 1918

• “Buddies,” memorial in Jaffrey, New Hampshire

• WWI Monument, Colubia SC, dedicated 2002

• Doughboy Monument, Bessemer, AL, 1922

• “To the memory of our World War heroes who died that civilization might not perish from the earth.”

• The Spirit of the American Doughboy, sculpted by Ernest Moore Viquesney, 1920, in Arkansas

• “Dedicated to the memory of our comrades who entered the service of their country from Fort Smith, Arkansas and who gave their lives in the World War.”

• In Memory of the Boys from Morgan County, Georgia

Tomb of the Unknown, 1921 (WWI soldier)

• The unknown (WWI) arriving at WashingtoNavy Yard (colorized photo), 1921

• Memorial to the Voie Sacrée(Sacred Way), Verdun, France, 1967,Fançois BARROIS Commercyand architect Gaston SCHMITT Toul.

The Trench of Bayonets, Verdun, dedicated 1920

• The Trench of Bayonets,

• Remnants of a communication trench from Verdun, photo taken in 2009

• The Lochnagar mine crater, 1916

Aerial view

Artifacts from the battlefields on display outside the cafe at the Ulster Tower. Thiepval

• Ulster tower in Thiepval. Copy of a County Down, Ulster tower, at battlefield site

reserved WW1 Trenches at Vimy Memorial Park

• Sniper plate in a forward sap in the Allied trench section at the Vimy Memorial Park.

• Cratered ground at the VimyMemorial Park.

The Nécropole Nationale de Douaumont. &The Final Results of the Battle of Verdun 1916.

Ossuary

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• Remains of soldiers buried at ossuary. Windows let you see into ground level burials

• John Russell Pope , Montfaucon AmercianMonument, 1937

Montfaucon with ruins of 6th C abbey in foreground

Constantin Brancusi, Gate of Kiss, Table of Silence and Endless Tower, memorial complex in Romania, finished 1938

• Menin Gate Memorial to the Missing at Ypres, s inaugurated on Sunday 24 July, 1927

Paul Cummins, Poppies at the Tower of London, 2014, ceramic installation

• In Flanders fields the poppies blowBetween the crosses, row on row,

That mark our place; and in the skyThe larks, still bravely singing, fly

Scarce heard amid the guns below.

We are the Dead. Short days agoWe lived, felt dawn, saw sunset glow,

Loved and were loved, and now we lieIn Flanders fields

Take up our quarrel with the foe:To you from failing hands we throw

The torch; be yours to hold it high.If ye break faith with us who die

We shall not sleep, though poppies growIn Flanders fields.

• poppy wreaths at Menin Gate memorial

Designing a museum exhibit: theme or thesis

• Case study Sharp, Clear Pictures: Edward Steichen’s World War I and Condé Nast Years

• At the start of World War I in 1914, Edward Steichen was a pioneering champion of art photography—catapulting to fame as a leading member of the Photo Secessionists and as cofounder of the trailblazing magazine Camera Work. Yet by the early 1920s, Steichen had rejected the soft focus, dreamy landscapes and portraits of his early years in favor of realist photographs made for informational purposes or popular consumption. This turning point was first marked by his role in World War I as chief of the Photographic Section of the American Expeditionary Forces from 1917 to 1919; it was fully realized in his subsequent work as lead photographer at Condé Nast publications from 1923 to 1937.

• Vaux #2, After Attack, 1918Edward J. Steichen (American, born Luxembourg, 1879–1973)Gelatin silver print

Rodin—The Thinker, 1902Edward J. Steichen (American, born Luxembourg, 1879–1973)Gum bichromate print

• Voulangis, 1900–1902Edward J. Steichen (American, born Luxembourg, 1879–1973)Platinum print

• Balzac, The Silhouette—4 a.m., 1908Edward J. Steichen (American, born Luxembourg, 1879–1973)Gum bichromate print

• Photographic Section, US Air Service, American Expeditionary Forces (AEF), and Major Edward J. Steichen, ASA. Concrete landing platform for airplanes at Puxieux, 1918.

• Edward Steichen. Mary Duncan in “Lilly,” 1931..

• Edward Steichen. Greta Garboand John Gilbert, 1928.