Research Catalog

Title

The art of war / Betty Churcher.

Author

Churcher, Betty, 1931-2015.

Publication

Carleton, Vic. : Miegunyah Press, 2004.

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Details

Additional Authors

Australian War Memorial.

Description

ix, 186 pages : color illustrations; 29 cm.

Summary

"The wars that have been an unrelenting feature of the past hundred years have left an enduring legacy in the art they have provoked. Here Betty Churcher, one of our leading art historians, explores the range and diversity of art inspired by war. She explores the work of official war artists in the First and Second World Wars, Korea, Vietnam and the war against terror in Afghanistan and the Persian Gulf. She looks, too, at lesser-known artists, ordinary soldiers, who were drawing and painting in the trenches during the First World War, the concentration camps of Europe, the prisoner-of-war camps of South-East Asia, and at artists who have been inspired by peace-keeping missions in Timor, Somalia and Eritrea." "The Art of War is illustrated throughout, featuring images as diverse as George Lambert's dramatic battlefield panoramas, Will Dyson's political cartoons, Ray Parkin's prisoner-of-war camp sketches and Gordon Bennett's graffiti-influenced works produced in the wake of the September 11 attacks on New York. Using works created to inspire patriotic sentiment, to record personal insights or to protest the senseless loss of human life, Churcher shows that where war has influenced movements in art, art has also changed attitudes to war."--Jacket.

Series Statement

Miegunyah Press series ; 2nd ser., no. 55

Uniform Title

Miegunyah Press series ; 2nd ser., no. 55.

Subjects

• Art > Australia > 20th century
• Art and war
• War in art

Note

• Published with the collaboration of the Australian War Memorial.

Bibliography (note)

• Includes bibliographical references (p. 176) and index.

Contents

The birth of a legend -- Sidney Nolan : the Gallipoli series -- The human tragedy -- Jan Senbergs : the sinking of HMAS Armidale, 1942 -- Far from the front line -- Gordon Bennett : notes to Basquiat 9:11 -- Cold wars and conflagrations.

ISBN

• 0522850995
• 9780522850994
• 9780522852622
• 0522852629

OCLC

• ocm60035966
• 60035966
• SCSB-1370214

Owning Institutions

Princeton University Library