Introduction

The commemoration of the First World War has given rise to a proliferation of images, images from archives, films and photographs, posters, paintings and sculptures which render the war present anew, in all its horror, a hundred years after its beginning. This proliferation has been accompanied by the development of scholarly research in the field of memorialization, a "memory turn" based on the pioneering work of the early social thinker and theorist Pierre Nora, among others, and the concep..