BGuthrie Photos: DC -- Library of Congress -- Exhibit (Agile): British, French, German Artists View the First World War

DC -- Library of Congress -- Exhibit (Agile): British, French, German Artists View the First World War:

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Specific picture descriptions: Photos above with "i" icons next to the bracketed sequence numbers (e.g. "[1] ") are described as follows:
1. LOCBFG_170828_01.JPG: British, French, and German Artists View the First World War Britain, France, Germany, and other WWI nations used the arts to glorify the homeland, demonize the enemy, and boost morale, aiming at civilians and at soldiers: the British Tommy, the French poilu, and the German Frontkampfer. Early works waxed hopeful. Later, trench warfare brought despair, as reflected in the following three books by soldiers-turned-authors from Britain, France, and Germany. In a novel adorned with fine engravings, Frenchman Roland Dorgeles depicted the camaraderie of suffering together, and the loneliness.
2. LOCBFG_170828_04.JPG: German writer Erich Maria Remarque's book, translated as All Quiet on the Western Front, became the classic novel of the war. Siegfried Sassoon's poems of the trenches' horrors resonated with the British public; his published dissent of the of the war landed him in a military psychiatric hospital, where he met and inspired poet Wilfred Owen.
3. LOCBFG_170828_08.JPG: Popular German Songs of World War I: The illustration for the little-remembered propaganda song "Deutchland-Osterreich!" portrays German and Austrian workers joining hands, encircled by the roots of a tree, defiant against the spears of invaders. Below, Germania (the united German nation) holds symbols of peace while crushing a snake resembling French leader Georges Clemenceau.
4. LOCBFG_170828_38.JPG: British, French, and German Artists View the First World War: All of the belligerent Great War countries quickly realized the propaganda value of posters, hitherto used primarily in sales. Posters covered many walls, often using just words, but artists designed others using color lithography, as shown here. French posters were the most artistic; German posters employed forceful designs; many British posters were later viewed as too cluttered for the message.
5. LOCBFG_170828_40.JPG: Myth vs Reality: Take up the Sword of Justice! A British recruitment poster alluding to the 1915 sinking of the Lusitania, a British ocean liner torpedoes by a German submarine. World War I was the first war in which submarines played a major role. Star & Garter Home for Totally Disabled Soldiers and Sailors: The stark reality of the many young, badly-wounded men returning home as invalids. By the end of the war, nearly one-quarter of British men had been in the armed forces.
6. LOCBFG_170828_42.JPG: The Costs of War Journee Nationale des Tuberculeux. Anciens Militaires. Sauvons-Les. (National day of benefit consumptive soldiers. Let us save the veterans.) The image underscores the suffering of veterans from illness and disease. The Survivors -- War Against War! German artist Kathe Kollwitz portrays the sorrow of the survivors in a poster created for Anti-War Day, September 21, 1924, ten years after World War I began.
7. LOCBFG_170828_44.JPG: Glorifying War Alles Furs Vaterland! Alles fur die Frieheit! (Everything for the Fatherland! Everything for Freedom!) The passionate German soldiers exhorts men to register for Jager (infantry) border battalions. Credit Lyonnais. Souscrivez Au 4e Emprunt National (Credit Lyonnais. Subscribe to the 4th National Loan) An allegorical male figure armed with a sword, is pulling the French flag away from the Imperial eagle and encouraging the French to purchase war bonds.
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