
Art and War
Laura Brandon(Author)
I.B. Tauris (Publisher)
Published on 30. August 2009
Book
Paperback/Softback
192 pages
978-1-84511-237-0 (ISBN)
Description
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 recent art and memorial work by artists as diverse as Barbara Kruger, Alfredo Jarr and Maya Lin. She looks finally to the reactions of contemporary artists such as Langlands and Bell to the US invasion in 2001 of Afghanistan and the 'War on Terror'.
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Language
English
Place of publication
United Kingdom
Publishing group
Bloomsbury Publishing PLC
Illustrations
30 halftones
Dimensions
Height: 210 mm
Width: 150 mm
ISBN-13
978-1-84511-237-0 (9781845112370)
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Person
Laura Brandon is Curator of War Art for the Canadian War Museum in Ottawa. Her books include 'Art or Memorial?: The Forgotten History of Canada's War Art' (University of Calgary Press).