The Glorious Dead
Six Memorials to the Great War, 1914-1918
Plym Traveling Fellowship Lecture
Monday, April 3, 2006
6:00 P.M. - Lawrence J. Plym Auditorium
Temple Hoyne Buell Hall
Jeffrey Poss
Associate Professor
School of Architecture
University of Illinois at Urbana Champaign
Champaign, IL
World War I was the scene of unprecedented suffering and loss of life. Of the 67 million men who went to fight, one in every six of was killed. This lecture will examine how instances of death and suffering were translated into the physical forms of reconciliation, which both borrowed from established symbols and also suggested new ways of expressing the incomprehensible. Archival photographs and artwork are combined with recent images from the Plym Fellowship travels to describe six events from the war, and how those events have been memorialized by architects and artists.
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World War I Memorial 