| 1911 | North America • USA | Fire at the Triangle Shirtwaist Factory in New York kills 145 employees. |
| 1913 | North America • USA
| The International Exhibition of Modern Art is held in New York and becomes known as the Armory Show taking the name from the Armory building. The exhibition introduces the American public to European trends in painting and sculpture. It is a revelation to those that see it and it impacts on photography by showing that copying the stylistic techniques and conventions of painting, as many of the pictorialists do, is no longer valid. (18 February 1913) |
| 1914 | Europe • Great Britain
| The Vorticist Manifesto is published in their journal Blast. |
| 1916 | Europe • Germany | Albert Einstein proposes the General Theory of Relativity. |
| 1917 | Europe • France | Marcel Duchamp exhibits his surrealist work The Fountain using a upturned urinal. |
| 1919 | Europe • Germany
| Walter Gropius founds the Bauhaus school of design. |
| 1919 | Europe • France | The French film director Abel Gance (1889-1981) releases the anti-war film J'accuse!. In it he uses wounded actors to portray the ghosts of fallen men. In 1924 John Heartfield created the photomontage After ten years: fathers and sons in which he uses skeletons and marching soldiers to depict the futility of war. |
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