There's a short study in my library somewhere about how the monuments changed, post WWI, to reflect the new absence of any body to bury. Explosives and artillery had gotten so powerful that dog tags became necessary and were issued, and obliteration was plausible. Only naval deaths had been memorialized by absence, generally. So negative space and empty spaces suddenly aspirated in the architecture of the memorials of the Great War.
There's a short study in my library somewhere about how the monuments changed, post WWI, to reflect the new absence of any body to bury. Explosives and artillery had gotten so powerful that dog tags became necessary and were issued, and obliteration was plausible. Only naval deaths had been memorialized by absence, generally. So negative space and empty spaces suddenly aspirated in the architecture of the memorials of the Great War.