Myth and Machine: Art and Aviation in the First World War

This book, which accompanies the exhibition "Myth and Machine: The First World War in Visual Culture" (The Wolfsonian-FIU, Miami Beach, FL, USA, November 2014-April 2015), describes in a few essays how artists during the First World War, principally in Europe, attempted to capture and explicate the experience of the new technology of aviation as it was used for military purposes. It focuses principally on items in The Wolfsonian's collection, including folios of prints, photographs, paintings, and other works as key subject matter.