ABSTRACT
This collection provides a transnational, interdisciplinary perspective on artistic responses to war from 1914 to the present, analysing a broad selection of the rich, complex body of work which has emerged in response to conflicts since the Great War. Many of the creators examined here embody the human experience of war: first-hand witnesses who developed a unique visual language in direct response to their role as victim, soldier, refugee, resister, prisoner and embedded or official artist. Contributors address specific issues relating to propaganda, wartime femininity and masculinity, women as war artists, trauma, the role of art in soldiery, memory, art as resistance, identity and the memorialisation of war.
TABLE OF CONTENTS
part 1I|60 pages
Home Front
chapter 2|12 pages
‘Our Lovely Countryside’
part 61II|66 pages
Art, Activism and Resistance
part 127III|63 pages
Traumatic Memory and Victimhood
part 191IV|59 pages
Collective Memory and Commemoration