Portraits of Remembrance - Painting, Memory, and the First World War

About the author

Margaret Hutchison is adjunct lecturer at Australian Catholic University. She is author of Painting War: A History of Australia's First World War Art Scheme.

Steven Trout is chair of the Department of English and codirector of the Center for the Study of War and Memory at the University of South Alabama in Mobile. He is author of Memorial Fictions: Willa Cather and the First World War and On the Battlefield of Memory: The First World War and American Remembrance, 1919-1941 and coeditor of World War I in American Fiction: An Anthology of Short Stories.

Summary

Examines the relationship between war painting and collective memory in Australia, Austria, Belgium, Canada, Croatia, France, Germany, Great Britain, New Zealand, Russia, Serbia, Turkey, and the United States. The paintings discussed vary tremendously, ranging from public murals and panoramas to works on a far more intimate scale.

Product details

• Assisted by: Margaret Hutchison (Editor), Steven Trout (Editor)
• Publisher: The University of Alabama Press
• Languages: English
• Product format: Hardback
• Released: 30.04.2020
• EAN: 9780817320508
• ISBN: 978-0-8173-2050-8
• No. of pages: 352
• Dimensions: 183 mm x 257 mm x 28 mm
• Weight: 1111 g
• Series: War, Memory, and Culture
• Subject: Humanities, art, music > Art > Art history