Constructing the memory of war in visual culture since 1914 : the eye on war / edited by Ann Murray.

Format:

Book

Contributor:

Murray, Ann (Art historian)

Series:

Routledge research in art and politics

Routledge Research in Art and Politics

Language:

English

Subjects (All):

War in art.

Art and war--History--20th century.

Art and war.

Collective memory--Social aspects.

Collective memory.

Arts and society--History--20th century.

Arts and society.

History.

War and society--History--20th century.

War and society.

Social aspects.

Physical Description:

xxii, 271 pages, 10 unnumbered paages of plates : illustrations (some color) ; 26 cm.

Place of Publication:

New York : Routledge, Taylor & Francis Group, 2018.

Summary:

This collection provides a transnational, interdisciplinary perspective on artistic responses to war from 1914 to the present, analysing a broad selection of the rich, complex body of work which has emerged in response to conflicts since the Great War. Many of the creators examined here embody the human experience of war: first-hand witnesses who developed a unique visual language in direct response to their role as victim, soldier, refugee, resister, prisoner, embedded or official artist. Contributors address specific issues relating to propaganda, wartime femininity and masculinity, women as war artists, trauma, the role of art in soldiery, memory, art as resistance, identity and the memorialisation of war.

Contents:

Home front.

'Picturing' World War I: German War Bond posters and the modern public / Claire Whitner

'Our lovely countryside': capturing the image of Britain at war in commerical advertising, 1939-1945 / David Clampin

Picturing war's affects on the homefront during the First World War / Catherine Speck

America's forgotten soldier art: the World War II Camp Art Programmes / Peter Harrington

Official art of World War II by British women artists: directing the gaze / Elizabet De Cacqueray

Art, Activism and Resistance.

Stategies of liberation: Jean Dubuffet's Métro series / Caroline Perret

Laughter at war / Anna Markowska

Another Egyptian revolution: Khayamiya as war art / Sam Bowker

Art and conflict resolution: Bloody Sunday, Northern Ireland / Maebh O'Regan

Terms of engagement: Canadian war art in a time of perpetual warfare / Christine Conley

Traumatic memory and victimhood.

Karlis Padegs' Red Laugh: the high song of insanity / Janis Kalnacs

Vietnam: memory of desecration in Brian De Palma's Casualties of War / Nanette Norris

The soldier's diary: a record of erased time / Agne Narusyte

The Fakhouri file: traumatic memory in the work of Walid Raad / Anna Radstrom

Polyrhythmics and migrating voices / Leonida Kovac

Collective memory and commemoration.

A paroxysm of battle painting: Adriano de Sousa Lopes and the Great War / Carlos Silveira

Let there be no more war: Jack B. Yeats's Grief in context / Elisabeth Ansel

Remembering Port Said 1956: Images of popular resistance in Egyptian Documentaries / Rania Abdelrahman

Orphan nation: Orphan photographs of the Korean War in visual culture / Jung Joon Lee

A lost state of plenitude: commemorating the Homeland War in public spaces in Croatia / Sandra Krizic Roban.

Notes:

Includes bibliographical references (pages 250-266) and index.

ISBN:

9781138502970

1138502979

OCLC:

1005709061