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The text translates as “With horror he remembers those he saw crucified by the Germans, head down. (Excerpt from a newspaper bulletin)”
This print—and the newspaper article it cites—seems to refer to a report, written by the British politician James Bryce, on alleged German atrocities during the German invasion of Belgium in 1914. The subject also appears in Bellows’s war print, on view nearby.
A soldier is plunging a bayonet into his crucified victim, a scene that recalls Christ’s crucifixion. In this way, the image opens up a wider meaning.
BJ, 2014
Tags:
abstract; deaths; military; text; violence; wars; writing Subjects:
Writing; Wars; Violence; text (layout feature); Death; Art, Abstract; Armies; World War, 1914-1918 Link to share this object record:
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