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Nothing but the Clouds Unchanged: Artists in World War I

Nothing but the Clouds Unchanged: Artists in World War I

$40.00 at The Getty Museum.

Edited by Gordon Hughes and Philipp Blom Much of how World War I is understood today is rooted in the artistic depictions of the brutal violence and considerable destruction that marked the conflict. Nothing but the Clouds Unchanged examines how the physical and psychological devastation of the war altered the course of twentieth-century artistic modernism. Following the lives and works of fourteen artists before, during, and after the war, this book demonstrates how the conflict and the resulting trauma…