Artistic Expressions and the Great War, A Hundred Years On (Cultural Memories, Band 15)

Neuwertig erhalten. Verlag: The Great War set in motion all of the subsequent violence of the twentieth century. The war took millions of lives, led to the fall of four empires, established new nations, and negatively affected others. During and after the war, individuals and communities struggled to find expression for their wartime encounters and communal as well as individual mourning. Throughout this time of enormous upheaval, many artists redefined their role in society, among them writers, performers, painters, and composers. Some sought to renew or re-establish their place in the postwar climate, while others longed for an irretrievable past, and still others tried to break with the past entirely. This volume offers a significant interdisciplinary contribution to the study of modern war, exploring the ways that artists contributed to wartime culture � both representing and shaping it � as well as the ways in which wartime culture influenced artistic expressions. Artists� places within and against reconstruction efforts illuminate the struggles of the day. The essays included represent a transnational perspective and seek to examine how artists dealt with the experience of conflict and mourning and their role in (re-)establishing creative practices in the changing climate of the interwar years. List of Figures ix Acknowledgements xvii SALLY DEBRA CHARNOW Introduction i part I The Front: Masculinity and Heroic Imagination 15 LIBBY MURPHY 1 Illustrators, Icons, and the Infantryman Re-imagined: Cartoon Soldiers of the Great War 19 BREANNE ROBERTSON 2 Romancing the Bayonet: Blood, Glory, and the Battlefield Sublime in American Depictions of the Great War 45 TERESA BERTILOTTI 3 The Soldier s Theatre: A Wooden Theatre behind Carso�s Front Line 69 RICHARD D. SONN 4 Immigrant Jewish Artists and Masculinity in France during the Great War 87 part ii Civilians and the Home Front: Gender, Censorship, Propaganda, and the Avant-Garde 107 GEORGE ROBB 5 Artists as Censors: The Case of the Vigilantes in GIZEM TONGO 6 Militarization and Mobilization of the Ottoman Art World during World War I: An Internal Kulturkampf 129 MECHELLA YEZERNITSKAYA 7 Civilians Seeing the War: Olga Rozanovas and Aleksei Kruchenykhs 1916 War 155 PAUL D. VAN WIE 8 Gendered Propaganda: The Financial Appeal to Women in World War I Germany 183 part in Coping with War Trauma: Tradition, Nostalgia, and (Re)construction 199 STEPHEN KATZ 9 Fighting a Dual War: Hebrew Literature and the Experience of the Great War 203 chandler carter 10 Has Wozzeck Got the Blues? TRISTAN PARE-MORIN 11 The Politics of Nostalgic Waltzes in Post-World War I Paris 233 part iv Postwar: Memory, Memorializing, and Commemoration 259 ANN MURRAY 12 Between Art and History: Reconfiguring the Memory of World War I in Otto Dix s Metropolis 165 NORA M. HEIMANN 13 Spirits, Spectres, Saints in Memorializing the Great War 281 ELIZABETH BENJAMIN 14 The (French) Art of Remembering: Representations of World War I from the Contemporary to the Contemporaneous 305 Notes on Contributors 327 Index 333 ISBN 9781789974041