When Modern Art Met Modern Warfare — artnews.com

In 1913, British sculptor Jacob Epstein unveiled his modernist masterpiece Rock Drill, a looming and threatening figure that was half man, half machine. The sculpture was a fusion of plaster flesh and an actual pneumatic drill, symbolizing the rapacious nature of industrial technology. But by 1916, when Epstein re-created the work for another exhibition, World War I had intervened, and the figure was transformed.

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