An Ocean of Pain and Death

Anti-war art from Napoleon to Guernica

Should I make you look at the photographs in Ernst Friedrich’s book?

Friedrich was a socialist German pacifist artist who, in 1924, published a book called War Against War! (actually, it was called Krieg dem Kriege! = Guerre à la guerre! = War against war! = Oorlog an den oorlog! He was not a minimalist.) Friedrich had, like many of his fellow humans, …