Introduction by Joanna Bourke, with essays by Jon Bird, Monica Bohm-Duchen, Joanna Bourke, Grace Brockington, James Chapman, Michael Corris, Patrick Crogan, Jo Fox, Paul Gough, Gary Haines, Clare Makepeace, Sue Malvern, Sergiusz Michalski, Manon Pignot, Anna Pilkington, Nicholas J. Saunders, John Schofield, John D. Szostak, Sarah Wilson and Jay Winter.
Joanna Bourke is Professor of History at Birkbeck, University of London, and Global Innovations Chair at the University of Newcastle, Australia. She is the author of many books, including An Intimate History of Killing (1999), Fear: A Cultural History (2005), The Story of Pain: From Prayer to Painkillers (2014) and Wounding the World: How Military Violence and War-play Invade our Lives (2014).
"War and Art offers a visual, cultural, and historical account of
depictions of war and its aftermath over the past two hundred
years. The artists and representations cross a variety of
media--from paintings, prints, and photography, and comics to film,
digital art, and graffiti--In an effort to visualize war, memory,
commemorative actions, and outcomes. . . . Richly illustrated with
more than four hundred illustrations and including notes for each
essay and a brief bibliography of about fifty sources, the volume
will be of interest to readers in history, art history, military
history, ethnic and cultural identity, memory studies, and related
fields of material and cultural heritage. . . . Recommended."--
"Choice"
"It is salutary that one of the leading historians of war and
violence, Bourke, whose work defined how these concepts are thought
of in relation to gender, emotions, and the body, sought to redress
such issues through the prism of visual culture. The result is a
large, lavishly illustrated tome expertly edited by Bourke, with
sixteen chapters by as many scholars. . . . The book has an
impressive arc and span: a survey, reader and primer, all-in-one. .
. . War and Art stands out for the way in which it brings together
a heterogeneous range of artistic practices and visual
modalities--from oil painting to aircraft fuselage, feature films
to drone images, embroidery to virtual reality. This rich span
allows it to make historical sense of the endless complexity of
forms, ideologies, discourses, and ends to which art lends itself
in relation to war, as well as to give readers a fuller account of
the different subject positions involved. This comprehensive
volume, ambitious in scope and scale, is a welcome addition to the
literature and a reference point for why visuality matters to the
humanities as never before."-- "Journal of Contemporary
History"
"The traumas and tragedies of war should never be underestimated or
forgotten. They change lives--combatants' and noncombatants'--in
unimaginable ways with far-reaching and generational effects.
Artists provide visual representations and reminders of the scope
and horrors of war. The platitude 'a picture is worth a thousand
words' is vividly reaffirmed in War and Art. The book surveys war
art of the last two centuries, from the Crimean War through the
conflicts in Iraq and Afghanistan. . . . War and Art is an
ambitious and captivating survey of the art and commemoration of
war. Its readers will not be disappointed."--Timothy J. Demy, US
Naval War College "Michigan War Studies Review"
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