The Great War changed the way the world saw war. The shift was due to a burgeoning media landscape. Posters, photography, cinema, and illustrated newspapers brought citizens onto the battlefield, letting them imagine themselves within the war. The exhibition “Imagined Fronts” argues that a straight line can be drawn from 1914 to today’s media spectacles. How much did newfound global knowledge have to do with events on the ground? And how much poetic license was taken by the artists? With some 200 objects by war photographers, filmmakers, and artists, as well as works by soldiers from around the world, the exhibition asks and answers questions about the role of imagination in visions of war. —Clara Molot