Imagined Fronts: The Great War and Global Media
Imagined Fronts: The Great War and Global Media
Imagined Fronts: The Great War and Global Media explores how the media spectacle in which we live had origins in World War I and the burgeoning mediascape of posters, photography, cinema, illustrated newspapers, and ephemera that made it the first global media war. How did the media and artists imagine a war encompassing the entire world? Combatants included forces from Australia, Canada, Asia, the Middle East, and Africa, as well as racially and ethnically diverse American and Indigenous peoples including Māori, First Peoples, and Choctaw “code talkers.” Imagined Fronts will consider how the media mobilized the masses, imagined the battlefield, facilitated the global war, and contained the aftermath. With some 200 objects by artists, war photographers, and filmmakers as well as soldiers from across several continents, Imagined Fronts will explore the intermingling of mass media and the artistic imagination.
This exhibition was organized by the Los Angeles County Museum of Art.
Generous support provided by the Robert Gore Rifkind Foundation.
All exhibitions at LACMA are underwritten by the LACMA Exhibition Fund. Major annual support
is provided by The David & Meredith Kaplan Foundation, with generous annual funding from
Louise and Brad Edgerton, Edgerton Foundation, Mary and Daniel James, Justin Lubliner,
Alfred E. Mann Charities, Kelsey Lee Offield, Koni and Geoff Rich, Lenore and Richard Wayne,
and Marietta Wu and Thomas Yamamoto.
Félix Edouard Vallotton, Verdun, 1917, Musée de l’armée, Paris, photo © Musée de l'armée, Dist. RMN-Grand Palais/Art Resource, NY
- Dec 3, 2023–Jul 7, 2024
- Resnick Pavilion
- Today's hours: 11 am–8 pm
This exhibition was organized by the Los Angeles County Museum of Art.
Generous support provided by the Robert Gore Rifkind Foundation.
All exhibitions at LACMA are underwritten by the LACMA Exhibition Fund. Major annual support
is provided by The David & Meredith Kaplan Foundation, with generous annual funding from
Louise and Brad Edgerton, Edgerton Foundation, Mary and Daniel James, Justin Lubliner,
Alfred E. Mann Charities, Kelsey Lee Offield, Koni and Geoff Rich, Lenore and Richard Wayne,
and Marietta Wu and Thomas Yamamoto.
Félix Edouard Vallotton, Verdun, 1917, Musée de l’armée, Paris, photo © Musée de l'armée, Dist. RMN-Grand Palais/Art Resource, NY