The Spencer Museum at KU has a cool exhibit right now called "Machine in a Void" and features propaganda posters, media art, and sketches from during and the decade after WWI. They had some cool photos taken by soldiers on the front lines as well a Kandinsky sketch.. This link from Art Tattler a few examples of the exhibit, including the above french poster.
This link takes you to one of my favorites in the exhibit called "Grenade Thrower." It was a good way to spend a rather closed eyed Thursday evening, and very fucking creepy. The paraphrased quote from one of the comic like pieces they had on display showed a little girl helping a wounded soldier drink water, with other soldiers looking on and they say something like "wait till she gives him the water, then shoot her." Creepy.
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