Art and War

Name: Art and War
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ISBN: 9781845112370

ISBN-10: 1845112377

ISBN-13: 9781845112370

Edition: 2007

Authors: Laura Brandon

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This is a truly encyclopaedic 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 of 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. Particular attention is paid to work produced in response to the First and Second World Wars and to more recent art and memorial work by artists as diverse as Barbara Kruger, Alfredo Jarr and Maya Lin. The book…

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List price: $34.95
Copyright year: 2007
Publisher: I. B. Tauris & Company, Limited
Publication date: 1/15/2007
Binding: Paperback
Pages: 192
Size: 6.00" wide x 9.00" long x 0.41" tall
Weight: 0.792
Language: English

Laura Brandon is the Curator of War Art at the Canadian War Museum in Ottawa. She has written extensively on war art and Canadian art history. Peg by Herself, her groundbreaking biography of war artist Pegi Nicol MacLeod, was published in 2005 and her award-winning exhibition, Canvas of War, toured Canada from 2000-2004.



Preface to the New Edition


Introduction


Chibuks and Lice in Ismail's Harem


Obsession for an Empress


Napoleon's Hated 'Mission Civilizatrice'


Muhammad Ali - a Brutal Age of Development


A Cruel Princess


Rulers of the New Renaissance


Ismail - a Ruler Obsesses


Paris's Belle Epoqueand the Great Exhibition


Ismail's Cairo - a Glitzy Age


The Finest Opera House in the World


The Palace of the Empress


The Cousin of the Empress


La Belle Eugenie


The Opening of the Accursed Canal


A Week of Hedonism


The Fall of Eugenie


The Fall of Ismail


Mr Cook and the Hotel Age


Cairo: the Englishman's Playground


Cairo's Sweet Scented Odalisques


The Age of the Great Hotels


Cairo's Last Flame


Setting Fire to Ismail's City


Epilogue: Ismail's Cairo Today


Notes


Bibliography


Index