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