The First World War was the first conflict to spawn a lot of artistic output from those who fought on its battlefields.
Works by Wyndham Lewis and Paul Joostens depict soldiers and machines as nearly abstract geometric forms.
PAUL NASH: We are making a new world (1918)
DAVID BOMBERG: Sappers at work (1918-19)
This incorporates the styles of cubism, futurism and Vorticism.
Photography became more important as the era developed. In America, this was largely due to the influential activities of Alfred Stieglitz, who founded the Photo-Secession at his "291" gallery in New York.
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