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ArtApril 2009 Exhibition notice On “Shell-Shocked: Expressionism After the Great War” at the Los Angeles County Museum of Art, on view through April 19, 2009.
In his war diary, Otto Dix wrote, “Lice, rats, barbed wire, fleas, grenades, bombs, holes, bodies, blood, schnapps, mice, cats, gas, guns, dirt, bullets, mortars, fire, steel: this is war! This is the work of the Devil!” He later translated those impressions to the Der Krieg cycle, five portfolios of etchings produced ... This article is available to subscribers and for individual purchaseSubscribe to TNC (Print and Online editions) Subscribe to TNC (Online only) This article originally appeared in The New Criterion, Volume 27 April 2009, on page 47 Copyright © 2009 The New Criterion | www.newcriterion.com http://www.newcriterion.com/articles.cfm/Exhibition-notice-4055
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