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Record Nr.

UNINA9910811976603321

Autore

Brandon Laura <1951->

Titolo

Art and war / / Laura Brandon

Pubbl/distr/stampa

London ; ; New York, : I.B. Tauris, 2007

ISBN

0-85773-281-1

0-7556-0417-2

0-85771-058-3

600-00-0963-1

1-4294-8016-5

Edizione

[First edition.]

Descrizione fisica

1 online resource (193 p.)

Collana

Art and

Disciplina

709

Soggetti

War in art

Art and war

Lingua di pubblicazione

Inglese

Formato

Materiale a stampa

Livello bibliografico

Monografia

Note generali

Description based upon print version of record.

Nota di bibliografia

Includes bibliographical references and index.

Nota di contenuto

List of Illustrations -- Abbreviations -- Acknowledgements -- Introduction -- Part I: A Long, Rich History -- 1. Ten Thousand Years of War Art to 1600 -- 2. War Art, 1600-1900 -- Part II: The World Wars -- 3. British Art and the First World War -- 4. Other Nations in the Great War and Later -- 5. The Second World War: Four Allied National Programmes -- Part III: War Art since 1945 -- 6. British and American War Art, 1945-1989 -- 7. War Art Internationally, 1990-2005 -- Part IV: Rendering and Remembering -- 8. Other Types of War Art -- 9. War Art as Memorial, War Art as Memory.

Epilogue The Beat Goes OnNotes -- Select Bibliography -- Index.

Sommario/riassunto

This is a truly encyclopedic survey of artists' responses - both official and personal - to the horrors of war. 'Art and War' reveals the sheer diversity of artists' portrayals of this most devastating aspect of the human condition - from the 'heroic' paintings of Benjamin West and John Singer Sargent to brutal and iconic works by artists from Goya to Picasso, and the equally oppositional work of Leon Golub, Nancy Spero and others who reacted with fury to the Vietnam War. Laura Brandon pays particular attention to work produced in response to World War I and World War II, as well as to more re.