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Exhibitions

The great and the good and the gassed and the dead

The National Portrait Gallery brings together a vivid collection of Great War portraits

29 March 2014

9:00 AM

29 March 2014

9:00 AM

The Great War in Portraits

National Portrait Gallery, until 15 June

Luke Elwes

Adam Gallery, 67 Mortimer Street, W1 | John Street, Bath, until 28 March | 29 March until 16 April

Last week, three exhibitions celebrating the art of Germany; this week, a show commemorating the first world war fought against that great nation. In this centenary year of the beginning of WW1, there will be numerous events marking the start of hostilities. (Will there be as many celebrating the anniversary of their cessation, I wonder?) Although there is some film footage of the war, and detailed photographic documentation of its horrors, the best record we have of the human reality of those five years of conflict resides in the art made about it.

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