Art and War (Art and... Series)
Publisher: I. B. Tauris
Published: December 26, 2006
Language: eng
Format: Hardcover
Number of pages: 168
ISBN-13: 9781845112363
Subjects: History Of Art / Art & Design Styles; Iconography, subjects depicted in art; Warfare & Defence; Criticism; Art; Art & Art Instruction; Art & Politics; Art / Art & Politics
First sentence: Any understanding or recognition of war art presumes a prior knowledge of the war culture that has underwritten its creation.
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 re.