The art: Otto Dix, Shock Troops Advance Under Gas from The War, 1924.

The news: “Assad’s Chemical Romance: As Syria descends into chaos, its stockpiles of chemical weaponry could turn into a proliferation nightmare,” by Leonard Spector for Foreign Policy magazine. 

The source: Collection of the Museum of Modern Art, New York.

Note: The 20th-century’s two most horrific classes of weapons, chemical and atomic/nuclear, motivated some of the century’s most intense art. During and after World War I, many artists made urgent, Yo lo vi! work about the horrors of poison gas. The 50-print portfolio from which this work comes, Dix’s The War, is one of the great and underrated accomplishments of 20th-century art.

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