Susan Sontag looks at the depiction of the cruelties of modern life on the evening news, along with the media's role in shaping the viewer's perception of events. As, thanks to television, atrocity becomes commonplace, does the viewer become anesthetized to it? Does it lead to greater violence? How exactly are people affected by their inability to ...
In this panoramic tour of America's military past, acclaimed artist Don Troiani once again turns his brush to the wars of the 18h and 19th centuries, focusing on the storied battles of those conflicts. From the French and Indian War through the Civil War, Troiani brings his flair for painstaking detail and high drama to such famous battle scenes ...
This volume draws upon new research and works that, in some cases, were held out of public view in Picasso's own collection to explore the period of his life from the Spanish Civil War through World War II and the Nazi occupation of France. Between these years Picasso produced some of the most intensely personal and expressive work of his career. ...
Keith Moxey examines woodcut images from the Nuremburg area, arguing that far from being crude representations of popular culture, they in fact represent the means by which the middle and upper classes could disseminate reformed attitudes to a broader audience.
For thousands of years, art has interpreted the experience of war - its methods, human costs and moral ambiguities - and has offered historians a wealth of testimony that is only beginning to be systematically explored. In this wide-ranging study, Peter Paret discusses 47 paintings and prints as complex documents of war in Europe since the ...
Great works of art, inspired by conflict. Great world conflicts have produced not only great military heroes but also great artists who have documented the bravery, valor, and daring of the armed forces and the bloody anguish of battle. Here are the best of their works, oversized reproductions of the most moving paintings and illustrations ever ...
V.V. Vereshchagin, the most popular and famous Russian artist in Western Europe and America in the last quarter of the 19th century, dedicated his life and art to opposing violence. Yet today his personal legacy of peace is forgotten. This biography tells the story of Vereshchagin's courage and tenacity in his struggle against the misery of war. ...
Spanning more than 200 years, this gallery of outstanding wartime art--from Paul Revere's depiction of the Boston Tea Party to American soldiers in the Gulf War--ranges from majestic land, sea, and airscapes to closeups of hand-to-hand combat. Every branch of the armed services is represented, and charts, maps, and first-hand testimonies bring ...
The story of the Confederate Spirit is told through eighty-eight spectacular works of art, including thirty that have never been seen in any book. The superb text is by Pulitzer Prize nominee James I. Robertson, Jr.
This book is part of the centenary celebration of James Boswell's (1906-1971) birth. His work is being honoured by displays at Tate Britain, the Prints and Drawings Gallery at the British Museum and a one man retrospective at Square One Gallery, London. One of its most salient features is a remarkably prophetic set of anti-war satirical drawings ...
War and disaster have shaped the first years of the twenty-first century, both in the United States and throughout the world. "On the Margins" brings together a culturally diverse group of international artists whose work engages the platitudes associated with such troubling themes, while addressing contemporary social and political conditions ...
From 1500 to 1825, Europe remained in an almost perpetual state of war. Religion, politics, economics, and dynastic ambition all played a role in the turmoil that spread across the continent. War-related printed images also proliferated during this time, serving a variety of functions - commemorative, propagandistic, iconic, narrative, eulogistic, ...
Using the theme of conflicts in art, this book aims both to help readers understand and enjoy the great work of others and create their own works of art. Each book in the series takes a different theme and looks at how a variety of artists have achieved results using different techniques. They explain what is special about particular works and ...
War. Whether it was waged at Pitcairn Island, Nagasaki, or the Falkland Islands, whether during the Han Dynasty, the English Empire, or the Cold War, battles have been fought, people slaughtered, women raped, children orphaned, and so on, as the pages of history turn. The current world situation, in the very first years of the 21st century, is ...
This is the first book to relate to the literature and art of the First World War, to the literature and art produced by the Second World War and by earlier wars. "A Muse of Fire" is also the first serious attempt to examine the whole range of war poetry and war fiction in English in its relation to the work of German, French, Italian and - to a ...
This work analyzes three main issues: the impact of war on art, the ways in which warfare imagery supports dominant ideologies, and the manner in which such imagery also constructs alternative identities. The essays deal with a wide array of chronological, geographical and artistic materials.
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