| Collection type | Library |
|---|---|
| Author | Cork, Richard.; Barbican Art Gallery.; |
| Call Number | F 704.9499403 C799b |
| Document type | Monograph |
| Year | 1994. |
| Citation | 93042951 |
| Pagination | 336 p. : ill. (some col.) ; 30 cm. |
| Publisher | Yale University Press in association with Barbican Art Gallery, |
| Note | Includes bibliographical references (p. [315]-330) and index. The trauma of the First World War had an immensely powerful effect on the painters, sculptors, and printmakers who participated in it. They produced an extraordinary range of striking images that conveyed the immediacy and horror of their experiences an. feelings. This arresting book is the first to bring together and examine the full international array of images spawned by the Great War. Richard Cork shows how avant-garde artists from Europe, Russia, and the United States challenged the recruiting posters and other propagandist views of the struggle by producing art that reflected the degradation of the trenches. Many of their images ar. now counted among the landmarks of early twentieth-century art, but his pioneering and lavishly illustrated book also examines a wealth of far less familiar work. The conflict was anticipated before hostilities began by the visionary and apocalyptic wor. of painters such as Meidner and Kandinsky, Chagall, Nevinson, Grosz, Beckmann, Kirchner, and other artists were quick to define war's essential tragedy with objective, expressionist, or allegorical art that alluded to their own wartime experiences. The. rshest images of war were made in the later stages or after the Armistice, when artists such as Dix had time to consider their participation in the war. Ironically, the post-war years also witnessed the redemptive work of Spencer and Brancusi who, after the Armistice, produced monumental affirmations of brotherhood, fortitude, and love. |
| Place made | New Haven |
A bitter truth : avant-garde art and the Great War / Richard Cork.
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