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Art and war

This text presents a survey of artists' responses - both 'official' & personal - to 'the horrors of war'. It reveals the diversity of artists' portrayals of this most devastating aspect of the human condition, from the 'heroic' paintings of Benjamin West & John Singer Sargent to brutal & iconic works by artists from Goya to Picasso
Print Book, English, 2007
I.B. Tauris, London, 2007
xii, 179 pages : illustrations ; 22 cm
9781845112370, 9781845112363, 1845112377, 1845112369
76910403
pt. 1. A long, rich history. Ten thousand years of war art to 1600
War art, 1600-1900
pt. 2. The World Wars. British art and the First World War
Other nations in the Great War and later
The Second World War: four allied national programmes
pt. 3. War art since 1945. British and American war art, 1945-1989
War art internationally, 1990-2005
pt. 4. Rendering and remembering. Other types of war art
War art as memorial, war art as memory
Epilogue: The beat goes on