M O D E R N I S M

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Mounted English Soldiers in the Boer War

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Afrikaans Soldiers in the Boer War

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Queen Victoria(r. 1837-1901)

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King Edward VII (r. 1901-1910)

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King George V (r. 1910-1936)

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Great War Machine Guns I

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Great War Machine Guns II: A French Field Gun

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Sigmund Freud

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‘But this point of view by no means embraces the whole of the actual process; for it slurs over the important part played by intuition and deductive thought in the development of an exact science. As soon as a science has emerged from its initial stages, theoretical advances are no longer achieved merely by a process of arrangement. Guided by empirical data, the investigator rather develops a system of thought which, in general, is built up logically from a small number of fundamental assumptions, the so-called axioms. We call such a system of thought a theory.’

(Einstein, The Special and General Theory of Relativity)

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Mrs. Röntgen's hand (the first X-ray picture of the human body)

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Braque, Woman with Guitar(1913)

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Picasso, The Guitar Player

(1910)

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Great War Machine Guns II: A French Field Gun

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Francis Picabia, Machine tournez vite

(Machine Turn Quickly), 1916/1918

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Filippo Tommaso Marinetti, Tribute to the Italian

Guido Guidi who,in an Italian Aircraft, Beat the

World Height Record (7,950M) (1916)

„Look at us! We are not out of breath, our hearts are not in the least tired. For they are nourished by fire, hatred and speed! Does this surprise you? it is because you do not even remember being alive! Standing on the world's summit, we launch once more our challenge to the stars!” (Futurist Manifesto, 1909)