The grinding, mechanized nature of World War I, the first global war tha t involved millions of infantry combatants, has tended to render these sold iers in popular culture as faceless masses rather than individual participa nts with their own unique stories. In an effort surface the individual of W WI, Artist Soldiers: Artistic Expression in the First World War features 54 artworks produced by the AEF artist program, the first true combat artists , with 29 art photographs of stone carvings created by soldiers in undergro und living spaces adjacent to the trenches. These spaces were abandoned sto ne quarries that soldiers on all sides used, a largely unknown aspect of th e war, even by WWI specialists. A selection of related artifacts is include d to support the content of the art. The AEF artwork has not been extensive ly displayed since the 1920s. Images of the soldiers’ stone carvings have n ever been shown in a major museum exhibition.
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X-ALT-DESC;FMTTYPE=text/html:The grinding, mechanized nature of World War I, the first global war tha t involved millions of infantry combatants, has tended to render these sold iers in popular culture as faceless masses rather than individual participa nts with their own unique stories. In an effort surface the individual of W WI, Artist Soldiers: Artistic Expression in the First World War features 54 artworks produced by the AEF artist program, the first true combat artists , with 29 art photographs of stone carvings created by soldiers in undergro und living spaces adjacent to the trenches. These spaces were abandoned sto ne quarries that soldiers on all sides used, a largely unknown aspect of th e war, even by WWI specialists. A selection of related artifacts is include d to support the content of the art. The AEF artwork has not been extensive ly displayed since the 1920s. Images of the soldiers’ stone carvings have n ever been shown in a major museum exhibition.
For more information, p lease visit: airandspace.si.edu
CONTACT:Peter Jakab: jakabp@si.edu DTSTAMP:20250521T013253 DTSTART;TZID=America/New_York:20181102T100000 DTEND;TZID=America/New_York:20181102T173000 SEQUENCE:0 TRANSP:OPAQUE END:VEVENT END:VCALENDAR