Tag: Arrive
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01 Work, The Art of War, George Bellows’ The Germans Arrive, with footnotes
A German soldier strangles a civilian while another woman is attacked near a burning cottage. Artists played a role even before 1917. Reports of German atrocities galvanized George Bellows, initially an opponent of the war, into action. Bellows, channeling Goya, painted and made prints of rape, forced labor and the murder of children by gleeful…