War beyond Words: Languages of Remembrance from the Great War to the Present, by Jay Winter

Leo Mellor on the artistic ways in which the conflicts of the past century are recalled and reimagined

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March 7, 2019

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March 7, 2019

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Angles of repose the ‘geometry of memory’ has shifted from solemn verticality to more horizontal forms

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