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War Art Digitisation - FrontMotion Firefox. Modern Architecture’s Dark Side by Martin Filler. There has long been a tendency to see the most important innovations of Modernism as arising directly from progressive causes. War, in this view, was considered a limiting if not wholly destructive force that stymied civilian architecture in favor of retrogressive military structures. But in his groundbreaking recent book Architecture in Uniform: Designing and Building for the Second World War, the French architectural historian and architect Jean-Louis Cohen establishes one big, awful, inescapable truth: the full potential of twentieth-century architecture, engineering, and design was realized not in the social-welfare and urban-improvement schemes beloved by the early proponents of the Modern Movement, but rather through technologies perfected during the two world wars to slaughter vast armies, destroy entire cities, decimate noncombatant populations, and industrialize genocide.

The Future of Architecture is the best comprehensive history of modernism to appear in a generation. Once Upon A Time In War. Once Upon A Time In War. Representing War: propaganda, posters, pamphlets, publicity, music, artwork and memorials. This theme is concerned with the representation of warfare in all its forms, with a primary focus on posters, artwork and music.

Representing War: propaganda, posters, pamphlets, publicity, music, artwork and memorials

Many posters which have not been assigned to other themes appear here. There are posters from World War I issued in Canada, the United States, Belgium, France and Germany. Visual History of War, Religion, and Government. Canadian War Museum - FrontMotion Firefox. Dr.

Canadian War Museum - FrontMotion Firefox

Laura Brandon Age is taking an inevitable but heavy toll on the generation of Canadians who remember the two world wars.