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10%OFFMaria Tippett - Art at the Service of War: Canada, Art, and the Great War - 9781442616042 - V9781442616042
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Art at the Service of War: Canada, Art, and the Great War

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Description for Art at the Service of War: Canada, Art, and the Great War Paperback. Art at the Service of War is the story of how artists as diverse as modernist Paul Nash, the revolutionary Vorticist Wyndham Lewis, and young Canadians such as A.Y. Jackson came to paint Canada's war. Num Pages: 200 pages, black & white illustrations. BIC Classification: 1KBC; ACXD; AFC. Category: (P) Professional & Vocational. Dimension: 178 x 253 x 12. Weight in Grams: 424.

The Canadian War Memorials Exhibition opened in the galleries of the Royal Academy in Burlington House in January 1919. Featuring four hundred paintings and sculptures depicting the Canadian Expeditionary Force in the First World War, the exhibition became the gala event of the London art season.  

Art at the Service of War is the story of how artists as diverse as modernist Paul Nash, the revolutionary Vorticist Wyndham Lewis, and young Canadians such as A.Y. Jackson came to paint Canada’s war. Bringing together the artists, critics, and art gallery owners with patrons, military leaders, and politicians, the experience exposed ... Read more

First published in 1984, Art at the Service of War was one of the first contributions to Canadian cultural history. With the approaching hundredth anniversary of the outbreak of the Great War, this book provides a timely reminder of the impact of this conflict even beyond the military and political spheres.

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Product Details

Publisher
University of Toronto Press
Number of pages
200
Format
Paperback
Publication date
2013
Condition
New
Weight
424 g
Number of Pages
200
Place of Publication
Toronto, Canada
ISBN
9781442616042
SKU
V9781442616042
Shipping Time
Usually ships in 7 to 11 working days
Ref
99-15

About Maria Tippett
Maria Tippett is an emerita senior research fellow in the Faculty of History at Cambridge University. She has won numerous awards for her writing, including the Governor-General's Award for Non-Fiction and the John A. Macdonald Prize of the Canadian Historical Association.

Reviews for Art at the Service of War: Canada, Art, and the Great War
‘Art at the Service of War is a carefully researched and clearly written account of the Canadian War Memorial Fund … This is a handsome and valuable book.’
Robert Craig Brown
Canadian Historical Review
‘Lord Beaverbrook’s imaginative scheme to send artists to the front in the First World War is alluded to from time to time in ... Read more

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