Visions of War
Subtitle: Picturing Warfare from the Stone Age to the Cyber Age
Edition: 1st edition
Publisher: St. Martin's Press
Published: November 29, 1999
Language: eng
Format: Hardcover
Number of pages: 288
ISBN-13: 9780312200459
Subjects: Art Forms, Treatments & Subjects; History of specific subjects; Warfare & Defence; History (Specific Aspects); Military History (General); History; History - Military / War; History: World; Military - General; Revolutionary; Subjects & Themes - General; History / Military / Other; Military - Other; Pictorial works; War; War in art
First sentence: today, the "big man" view was and is created by constructing large-scale images of rulers, such as the colossal statuary of ancient kings and modern despots; the viewer is forced to "look upon" the works of the mighty from an insect's viewpoint. The effect is owed, perhaps, to the universal fact that all people spend the early years of their lives being smaller and shorter in stature than adults on whom they are dependent for sustenance and direction.