HUMAN 1C Lecture Notes - Lecture 14: Trench Warfare, Ottoman Empire, Axis Powers
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Lecture 14 notes immediate cause was the assassination of an archduke: 1914 1918 b, an attack on one nation caused other nations to align, central powers d. i. Bulgaria, ottoman empire, german empire, hungarian empire: axis powers e. i. Russian, great britain, france, italy, us: technology f. i. Could keep gun in one nest and shoot everyone f. ii. Cant be shot by a machine gun f. iii. 1,000,000 casualties in the battle of somme: germans lose the war, military deaths. Thesis: in depicting wounded soldiers and the germans responsible for their victimization, new objectivity paintings fragmented the audiences to which they appealed: pictures make arguments about what they are depicting. Iconography subject matter a: otto dix b. i. Blind man, one hand that may be a real man, legs are sticks, he is begging, receives a food coupon b. i. 3. Other man has lost his body from the ribcage down. He is sitting on a wooden cart with wheels and pushed himself with sticks b. i. 3. a.
