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Catherine Speck - Beyond the Battlefield: Women Artists of the Two World Wars - 9781780233741 - V9781780233741
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Beyond the Battlefield: Women Artists of the Two World Wars

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Description for Beyond the Battlefield: Women Artists of the Two World Wars Hardback. Beyond the Battlefield provides a fascinating account of female creativity in America, Britain, Canada, Australia and New Zealand during the turbulent era of twentieth-century conflict. This book looks at women artists' unique artistic portrayal of war at the front lines, as well as their documentation of everyday life on the home front. Num Pages: 320 pages, 130 colour, 26 black & white. BIC Classification: ACXD; JFSJ1. Category: (UP) Postgraduate, Research & Scholarly. Dimension: 258 x 197 x 25. Weight in Grams: 1122.
Beyond the Battlefield provides a fascinating account of female creativity in America, Britain, Canada, Australia and New Zealand during the turbulent era of twentieth-century conflict. This book looks at women artists' unique artistic portrayal of war at the front lines, as well as their documentation of everyday life on the home front. Exploring high-profile artists such as the American photographer Lee Miller and her work with British Vogue, this book also recounts the experiences of the First World War nurses, voluntary aides and ambulance drivers who found time to create astonishing art while working in the middle of war zones. While some women could bravely work the front lines, other female artists felt disempowered by their distance from actual warfare. Spurred by the constant fear of attack, the sorrow of innocent lives destroyed, the mass murders of people in concentration camps and the unimaginable aftermath of the A-bomb attacks on Japan, female artists created highly charged, emotional responses to the threats, sufferings and horrors of war. The two world wars of the twentieth century changed the world utterly, on a scale never seen before or since.In this book, Catherine Speck provides an insightful and meditative examination of visual responses to this historical period from the perspective of women in the Allied countries. Generously illustrated, Beyond the Battlefield delivers a distinctly female perspective on the art produced during the period that will appeal to readers interested in the history of art, war history and cultural studies.

Product Details

Publisher
Reaktion Books
Format
Hardback
Publication date
2014
Condition
New
Weight
1122g
Number of Pages
320
Place of Publication
London, United Kingdom
ISBN
9781780233741
SKU
V9781780233741
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About Catherine Speck
Catherine Speck is Professor of Art History at the University of Adelaide. She has published widely on women, war and art; modernism, cosmopolitanism and expatriatism; and the relationship between exhibitions and art histories.

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