Modern Art, Britain, and the Great War by Sue Malvern

Modern Art, Britain, and the Great War by Sue Malvern

The First World War had a great impact on British modernism and twentieth-century art. This book examines how the British state recruited some of its most controversial artists to produce official art as part of propaganda and how their work gave witnessed testimony to the trauma of a war that later generations would redeem in acts of remembrance. The principal means by which artists visually recorded their war experiences, says Sue Malvern, were the official employment schemes set up by the government in 1916. Challenging prevailing opinion, she argues that these schemes were surprisingly liberal, giving modern artists unprecedented scope to create new audiences for their art. Official art was not just visual propaganda, but work of compelling quality and value, and the issues it raised extended into the post-war period and beyond. Published for the Paul Mellon Centre for Studies in British Art

Sue Malvern lectures in history of art at the University of Reading.

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ISBN 13	9780300105766
ISBN 10	0300105762
Title	Modern Art, Britain, and the Great War
Author	Sue Malvern
Condition	Unavailable
Binding Type	Hardback
Publisher	Yale University Press
Year published	2004-10-11
Number of pages	244
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