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The Great War in Portraits (Paperback)
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The Great War in Portraits (Paperback)
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Loot Price R496
Discovery Miles 4 960
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In viewing the Great War through the portraits of those involved,
Paul Moorhouse looks at the bitter-sweet nature of a conflict in
which valour and selfless endeavour were qualified by disaster and
suffering, and examines the notion of identity - how various
individuals associated with the war were represented and perceived.
The narrative is structured chronologically, with thematic sections
devoted to conflicting pairs - `Royalty and the Assassin', `Leaders
and Followers', `The Valiant and the Damned' - which reveal the
radical differences between those caught up in the conflict in
terms of their respective roles, aspirations, experiences, and,
ultimately, their destinies. `Leaders and Followers', for example,
examines the dichotomy between the representation of senior
military leaders such as Blumer, Foch, Haig and Hindenburg, who
were responsible for directing the war, and that of the ordinary
soldiers charged with executing it. While portraits of the generals
emphasise their personal profile, gallantry and the trappings of
military power, paintings of the rank and file are characterised by
a tendency to anonymity, in which individual identity was subsumed
with the impression of `types'. Claude Rogers's imposing painting
Gassed, for instance, presented the individual soldier as a kind of
cipher, a depersonalised embodiment of common, degraded experience.
Illustrated throughout with images both well known and less
familiar, the book concludes with a section entitled `Tradition and
the Avant-Garde', which focuses on the struggle artists faced in
finding an appropriate language in which to depict those who had
experienced the unimaginable horror at the front: either by
resorting to the steadying hand of tradition or a radical visual
language of expressive distortion.
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