Art and War.

Format:

Book

Author/Creator:

Brandon, Laura, author.

Series:

Art and-.

Art and

Language:

English

Subjects (All):

Art and war.

War in art.

Physical Description:

xii, 179 p. : ill., port. ; 21 cm.

Edition:

First edition.

Distribution:

[London, England] : Bloomsbury Publishing, 2019.

Place of Publication:

London [England] : I.B. Tauris & Co. Ltd, 2014.

Language Note:

English

Summary:

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.

Contents:

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.

Notes:

Description based upon print version of record.

Includes bibliographical references and index.

Print version record.

ISBN:

9780857732811

0857732811

9780755604173

0755604172

9780857710581

0857710583

9786000009632

6000009631

9781429480161

1429480165

OCLC:

710975536