With so many people grieving, the notion of doing so in public was seen as tasteless and vulgar. Funerals became smaller, people put on a brave face in public and fewer people wore black.
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Bard Hedd Wyn was killed in action in France in 1917.
For William Kentridge, searching and erasure serves as a model for understanding our place in the world.
As tens of thousands of injured soldiers filled the UK’s overwhelmed hospitals, the scale of World War I became all too apparent.
