War (c. 1923), Frans Masereel As millions of decaying bodies fertilized Europe’s scorched earth, an international antiwar movement on both sides of the Atlantic pledged that war must be abolished but peace was a hard theme to visualize. So most portrayed armies as critical masses of faceless men molded into well-greased killing formations as in this image from a series by Frans Masereel. Predictably the protests did nothing. And in less than a generation another world war erupted.
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