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.

CONTENTS: The Front: Masculinity and Heroic Imagination - Libby Murphy: Illustrators, Icons, and the Infantryman Re-imagined: Cartoon Soldiers of the Great War - Breanne Robertson: Romancing the Bayonet: Blood, Glory, and the Battlefield Sublime in American Depictions of the Great War - Teresa Bertilotti: The Soldier's Theatre: A Wooden Theatre behind Carso's Front Line - Richard D. Sonn: Immigrant Jewish Artists and Masculinity in France during the Great War - Civilians and the Home Front: Gender, Censorship, Propaganda, and the Avant-Garde - George Robb: Artists as Censors: The Case of the Vigilantes - Gizem Tongo: Militarization and Mobilization of the Ottoman Art World during World War I: An Internal Kulturkampf - Mechella Yezernitskaya: Civilians Seeing the War: Olga Rozanova's and Aleksei Kruchenykh's 1916 War - Paul D. van Wie: Gendered Propaganda: The Financial Appeal to Women in World War I Germany - Coping with War Trauma: Tradition, Nostalgia, and (Re)construction - Stephen Katz: Fighting a Dual War: Hebrew Literature and the Experience of the Great War - Chandler Carter: Has Wozzeck Got the Blues? - Tristan Paré-Morin: The Politics of Nostalgic Waltzes in Post-World War I Paris - Postwar: Memory, Memorializing, and Commemoration - Ann Murray: Between Art and History: Reconfiguring the Memory of World War I in Otto Dix's Metropolis - Nora M. Heimann: Spirits, Spectres, Saints in Memorializing the Great War - Elizabeth Benjamin: The (French) Art of Remembering: Representations of World War I from the Contemporary to the Contemporaneous.