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Author : Adelaide Stuart Dimitry
Publisher :
ISBN 13 :
Total Pages : 108 pages
Book Rating : 4.X/5 (1 download)
Download or read book War-time Sketches, Historical and Otherwise written by Adelaide Stuart Dimitry and published by . This book was released on 1911 with total page 108 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt:
Author : Robert Cozzolino
Publisher : Princeton University Press
ISBN 13 : 0691172692
Total Pages : 320 pages
Book Rating : 4.6/5 (911 download)
Download or read book World War I and American Art written by Robert Cozzolino and published by Princeton University Press. This book was released on 2016-11 with total page 320 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: -World War I and American Art provides an unprecedented look at the ways in which American artists reacted to the war. Artists took a leading role in chronicling the war, crafting images that influenced public opinion, supported mobilization efforts, and helped to shape how the war's appalling human toll was memorialized. The book brings together paintings, drawings, prints, photographs, posters, and ephemera, spanning the diverse visual culture of the period to tell the story of a crucial turning point in the history of American art---
Author : Adelaide Stuart Dimitry
Publisher :
ISBN 13 : 9781331040606
Total Pages : 104 pages
Book Rating : 4.0/5 (46 download)
Download or read book War-Time Sketches written by Adelaide Stuart Dimitry and published by . This book was released on 2015-07-09 with total page 104 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: Excerpt from War-Time Sketches: Historical and Otherwise The following papers, written by Mrs. Dimitry while Historian of the "Stonewall Jackson Chapter" of New Orleans, were intended not solely to amuse and interest, but primarily to set forth in correct form historic events of the war of l861-'65, and further to preserve and hand down to an interested posterity incidents semi-biogrpahical which otherwise would have passed into oblivion. The author has derived her data not alone from written history, but largely from the lips of those who were participants in that memorable struggle - men who had been comrades of Mumford, confreres of Benjamin, and survivors of the ill-fated Louisiana. Material for the sketches of social life were drawn from the reminiscences of war-time women, mostly members of the Chapter, and all are based upon incidents occurring in real life. They shed side-lights upon the manners, customs and dress of that troublous period and reflect in their shining depths the high courage and quick wit of the women of the Southland. As a woman of the sixties Mrs. Dimitry herself writes in propria persona for she was one of the signers of those "fair Confederate bank notes," serving the Confederate government until its downfall. Born of splendid Southern lineage, a Mississippian, but of the Stuart family of Virginia and cousin to that chevalier Stuart "sans peur and sans reproche," she was qualified both by birth and experience to write feelingly and in authentic fashion. As the wife and intellectual helpmate of Prof. John Dimitry, she lived in an atmosphere of culture and scholarship. Professor Dimitry came of a family of educators and literary folk and was himself an historian of considerable merit, notable among his works being a "School History and Geography of Louisiana" and "The Confederate Military History of Louisiana." In this connection we can not refrain from quoting his peerless epitaph to Albert Sidney Johnston, engraved in the tomb of the Army of Tennessee. Metairie Cemetery, New Orleans. In its epigrammatic terseness of phrase, beauty of diction and poetic depth of feeling it deserves to rank as a classic. About the Publisher Forgotten Books publishes hundreds of thousands of rare and classic books. Find more at www.forgottenbooks.com This book is a reproduction of an important historical work. Forgotten Books uses state-of-the-art technology to digitally reconstruct the work, preserving the original format whilst repairing imperfections present in the aged copy. In rare cases, an imperfection in the original, such as a blemish or missing page, may be replicated in our edition. We do, however, repair the vast majority of imperfections successfully; any imperfections that remain are intentionally left to preserve the state of such historical works.
Author : Adelaide Dimitry
Publisher : CreateSpace
ISBN 13 : 9781480148406
Total Pages : 102 pages
Book Rating : 4.1/5 (484 download)
Download or read book War-Time Sketches written by Adelaide Dimitry and published by CreateSpace. This book was released on 2012-10-21 with total page 102 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: Published in 1911, this is a collection of Confederate Civil War stories written by Adelaide Dimitry, who was a cousin of Confederate General J.E.B. Stuart and the historian for the Stonewall Jackson Chapter of New Orleans, United Daughters of the Confederacy. Also touches on reconstruction.
Author : Anthony L. Geist
Publisher : University of Illinois Press
ISBN 13 : 9780252070266
Total Pages : 88 pages
Book Rating : 4.0/5 (72 download)
Download or read book They Still Draw Pictures written by Anthony L. Geist and published by University of Illinois Press. This book was released on 2002 with total page 88 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: A heart-wrenching, yet enlightening collection of children's drawings forged in the fires of war. Of the 600,000 refugees who sought shelter from Franco's tyranny in the relative security of Republican-controlled eastern Spain, more than 200,000 were children. The Republic responded to this crisis by establishing colonias infantiles (children's colonies), often in country estates and mansions that had been abandoned by fascist sympathizers. In these colonies, the young refugees -- many of them orphaned or sent by their parents to safety -- received schooling and medical care, kept each other company, and produced thousands of drawings that serve as a moving, collective testimony of the experience of being a child in wartime. Companion to a major traveling exhibition, They Still Draw Pictures collects and comments on a cross-section of the children's art produced in the colonias infantiles. Born of the trauma of exile and separation, the drawings are invaluable historical documents, giving physical form to the children's experiences of air raids, brutality, destruction, and homelessness. These pictures also represent daily life in the colonies and preserve the children's clear memories of life before the war and hope for life after it. They are supplemented by a smaller selection of drawings from later wars. "Once I drew like Rafael, " Picasso said, "but it has taken me a lifetime to draw like a child." Deceptively transparent, these drawings speak with a poignant immediacy of war's consequences for its youngest victims.
Author : Richard O'Hara
Publisher :
ISBN 13 : 9781711387857
Total Pages : 80 pages
Book Rating : 4.3/5 (878 download)
Download or read book Drawn from War written by Richard O'Hara and published by . This book was released on 2019-11-25 with total page 80 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: Sergeant Victor Lundy created 158 superb sketches which capture his experiences with the 26th Infantry Division in World War II. His days in training are well documented, as are the scenes of his embarkation and journey by convoy to Cherbourg on the coast of France. His unit was transported to the front via Red Ball Express and joined General Patton's 3rd Army as it fought for every hill and village, trying to drive the Germans from France. The exciting conclusion is a harrowing first-person narrative of the desperate battle for a tiny French village. There are few moments more consequential in combat than staring down the barrel of a Tiger Tank. Fortunately, Victor Lundy survived to tell his story.
Author : Robert R. Leonhard
Publisher : Praeger Publishers
ISBN 13 :
Total Pages : 222 pages
Book Rating : 4.3/5 (91 download)
Download or read book Fighting by Minutes written by Robert R. Leonhard and published by Praeger Publishers. This book was released on 1994 with total page 222 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: This book argues that time is the primary dimension in modern war and explores the paradoxes of warfare's temporal characteristics. Leonhard introduces a bold new theory that focuses on time as the critical component that controls all other aspects of war. Well-grounded in history, Leonhard's work is certain to take its place as a classic theory of war according to James R. McDonough, who wrote the foreword.
Author : Alex Danchev
Publisher : Edinburgh University Press
ISBN 13 : 0748641386
Total Pages : 256 pages
Book Rating : 4.7/5 (486 download)
Download or read book On Art and War and Terror written by Alex Danchev and published by Edinburgh University Press. This book was released on 2009-07-06 with total page 256 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: This book, a collection of Alex Danchev's essays on the theme of art, war and terror, offers a sustained demonstration of the way in which works of art can help us to explore the most difficult ethical and political issues of our time: war, terror, extermination, torture and abuse.It takes seriously the idea of the artist as moral witness to this realm, considering war photography, for example, as a form of humanitarian intervention. War poetry, war films and war diaries are also considered in a broad view of art, and of war. Kafka is drawn upon to address torture and abuse in the war on terror; Homer is utilised to analyse current talk of 'barbarisation'. The paintings of Gerhard Richter are used to investigate the terrorists of the Baader-Meinhof group, while the photographs of Don McCullin and the writings of Vassily Grossman and Primo Levi allow the author to propose an ethics of small acts of altruism.This book examines the nature of war over the last century, from the Great War to a particular focus on the current 'Global War on Terror'. It investigates what it means to be human in war, the cost it exacts and the ways of coping. Several of the essays therefore have a biographical focus.
Author : Joanna Bourke
Publisher :
ISBN 13 : 9781780238463
Total Pages : 0 pages
Book Rating : 4.2/5 (384 download)
Download or read book War and Art written by Joanna Bourke and published by . This book was released on 2017 with total page 0 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: In times of crisis, we often turn to artists for truth-telling and memory-keeping. There is no greater crisis than war, and in this sumptuously illustrated volume, we find a comprehensive visual, cultural, and historical account of the ways in which armed conflict has been represented by artists. Covering the last two centuries, from the Crimean War to the present day, the book shows how the artistic portrayal of war has changed, from a celebration of heroic exploits to a more modern, troubled, and perhaps truthful depiction of warfare and its consequences. The book investigates broad patterns as well as specific genres and themes of war art, and features more than 400 color illustrations by artists including Paul Nash, Judy Chicago, Pablo Picasso, Melanie Friend, Marc Chagall, Francis Bacon, K the Kollwitz, Joseph Beuys, Yves Klein, Robert Rauschenberg, Dora Meeson, Otto Dix, and many others. The volume also highlights the work of often overlooked artists, including children, non-Europeans, and prisoners of war. A wide range of subjects, from front-line combat to behind-the-lines wartime experiences are represented in paintings, etchings, photography, film, digital art, comics, and graffiti. Edited and with an introduction by Joanna Bourke, War and Art features essays written by premier experts in the field. This extensive survey is a fitting and timely contribution to our understanding of art, memory, and commemoration of war.
Author : Eleanor Jones Harvey
Publisher : Yale University Press
ISBN 13 : 0300187335
Total Pages : 353 pages
Book Rating : 4.3/5 (1 download)
Download or read book The Civil War and American Art written by Eleanor Jones Harvey and published by Yale University Press. This book was released on 2012-12-03 with total page 353 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: Collects the best artwork created before, during and following the Civil War, in the years between 1859 and 1876, along with extensive quotations from men and women alive during the war years and text by literary figures, including Emily Dickinson, Mark Twain and Walt Whitman. 15,000 first printing.
Author : Monica Bohm-Duchen
Publisher : Lund Humphries Publishers Limited
ISBN 13 : 9781848220331
Total Pages : 0 pages
Book Rating : 4.2/5 (23 download)
Download or read book Art and the Second World War written by Monica Bohm-Duchen and published by Lund Humphries Publishers Limited. This book was released on 2013 with total page 0 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: First published in 2013 by Lund Humphries.
Author : Jennifer Farrell
Publisher : Metropolitan Museum of Art
ISBN 13 : 1588396568
Total Pages : 51 pages
Book Rating : 4.5/5 (883 download)
Download or read book World War I and the Visual Arts written by Jennifer Farrell and published by Metropolitan Museum of Art. This book was released on 2017-11-02 with total page 51 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: Published on the occasion of the centenary of World War I, this Bulletin, which accompanies the related exhibition “World War I and the Visual Arts,” on view at The Met until January 7, 2018, explores the myriad and often contradictory ways in which artists responded to the world’s first modern war. Drawn primarily from The Met’s collection of works on paper and supplemented with loans from private collections, both presentations move chronologically from the initial mobilization in early August 1914 to the tumultuous decade that followed the armistice of November 1918. Ranging from expressions of bellicose enthusiasm to sentiments of regret, grief, and anger, the selected works—from prints, photographs, and drawings to propaganda posters, postcards, and commemorative medals—powerfully evoke the conflicting emotions of this complex period. p.p1 {margin: 0.0px 0.0px 0.0px 0.0px; font: 14.0px Verdana}
Author : Anthony L. Geist
Publisher :
ISBN 13 : 9780252027161
Total Pages : 0 pages
Book Rating : 4.0/5 (271 download)
Download or read book They Still Draw Pictures written by Anthony L. Geist and published by . This book was released on 2002 with total page 0 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: "A drawing or a painting is a soul's message eagerly sought by us watchful onlookers," Robert Coles observes in his foreword to this striking volume. "The point is to demonstrate what has been imagined, or yes, witnessed . . . [and] for us to be shown something by certain boys and girls who become our teachers." Bearing powerful testimony to Coles's message, They Still Draw Pictures collects and comments on a cross-section of children's art produced in wartime, with a particular focus on the Spanish Civil War.Of the 600,000 refugees who sought shelter from Franco's tyranny in the relative security of Republican-controlled eastern Spain, more than 200,000 were children. The Republic responded to this crisis by establishing colonias infantiles (children's colonies), often in country estates and mansions that had been abandoned by fascist sympathizers. In these colonies, the young refugees--many of them orphaned or sent by their parents to safety--received schooling and medical care, kept each other company, and produced thousands of drawings that serve as a moving, collective testimony of the experience of being a child in wartime. Born of the trauma of exile and separation, the drawings are invaluable historical documents, giving physical form to the children's experiences of air raids, brutality, destruction, and homelessness. These pictures also represent daily life in the colonies and preserve the children's clear memories of life before the war and hope for life after it. They are supplemented by a smaller selection of drawings from later wars, showing that this problem is contemporary as wellas historical. "Once I drew like Rafael," Picasso said, "but it has taken me a lifetime to draw like a child." Deceptively transparent, these drawings speak with a poignant immediacy of war's consequences for its youngest victims.
Author : Donald Nijboer
Publisher :
ISBN 13 : 9781554078929
Total Pages : 272 pages
Book Rating : 4.0/5 (789 download)
Download or read book Graphic War written by Donald Nijboer and published by . This book was released on 2011 with total page 272 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: A superb collection of "top secret" drawings from World War II.
Author : Arleigh Movitz
Publisher :
ISBN 13 : 9781682229767
Total Pages : 348 pages
Book Rating : 4.2/5 (297 download)
Download or read book The Wartime Drawings of Edward Movitz written by Arleigh Movitz and published by . This book was released on 2015 with total page 348 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: "Artist and professor emeritus Edward D. Movitz, known more for his expressionist paintings and his drawings, sculptures, landscapes and woodcut prints, has for decades also kept a collection of some 300 early works, stashed high on a bookshelf in a manila clasp envelope. These pencil and pen sketches were all produced during and just after the Second World War (1941-1946), when he was in junior high through high school, living in Boston, Massachusetts. While the manila envolope was good enough to protect these drawings for the intervening 70+ years, in many cases the wartime notepad paper upon which they were drawn has just barely made it this far; many of the drawings are yellowed at best, and brown and brittle at worst. His son, Arleigh, after digitizing and archiving the entire collection, organized it and added historical commentary about both the drawings and their subjects for the contemporary reader. This book provides a unique viewpoint of World War II as seen through the eyes of a young aspiring artist."-front cover flap.
Author : Kirk Savage
Publisher : Yale University Press
ISBN 13 : 0300214685
Total Pages : 293 pages
Book Rating : 4.3/5 (2 download)
Download or read book The Civil War in Art and Memory written by Kirk Savage and published by Yale University Press. This book was released on 2016-01-01 with total page 293 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: "Proceedings of the symposium "The Civil War in Art and Memory," organized by the Center for Advanced Study in the Visual Arts, National Gallery of Art, and sponsored by the Arthur Vining Davis Foundations. The symposium was held November 8-9, 2013, in Washington."
Author : H. Avery Chenoweth
Publisher : Friedman-Fairfax
ISBN 13 :
Total Pages : 392 pages
Book Rating : 4.F/5 ( download)
Download or read book Art of War written by H. Avery Chenoweth and published by Friedman-Fairfax. This book was released on 2002 with total page 392 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: This book traces the history of American combat art from precolonial America to the end of the twentieth century.
