This catalogue presents a view of the First World War through a
multifarious record of two and three dimensional works of art:
paintings, drawings, prints, sculpture, reliefs, posters, postcards,
photographs, silhouettes and ceramics appear in the following pages. The
material has been grouped into 14 subsections under the general headings
of Combat, The Home Front and The Aftermath. These groupings highlight
the themes that inspired both the fine and popular arts, although some
are looser in association than others, and none are mutually exclusive.
The introduction gives a more general survey of the underlying factors
that influenced or determined the visual responses to the First World
War.