American Women Artists In Wartime 1776d2010

Author : Paula E. Calvin
Publisher : McFarland
ISBN 13 : 0786486759
Total Pages : 222 pages
Book Rating : 4.55/5 ( download)

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Download or read book American Women Artists in Wartime, 1776Ð2010 written by Paula E. Calvin and published by McFarland. This book was released on 2011-09-29 with total page 222 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: For generations, men have left their homes and families to defend their country while their wives, mothers and daughters remained safely at home, outwardly unaffected. A closer examination reveals that women have always been directly impacted by war. In the last few years, they have actively participated on the front lines. This book tells the story of the women who documented the impact of war on their lives through their art. It includes works by professional artists and photographers, combat artists, ordinary women who documented their military experiences, and women who worked in a variety of types of needlework. Taken together, these images explore the female consciousness in wartime.

Author : Catherine Speck
Publisher : Reaktion Books
ISBN 13 : 1780233841
Total Pages : 281 pages
Book Rating : 4.40/5 ( download)

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Download or read book Beyond the Battlefield written by Catherine Speck and published by Reaktion Books. This book was released on 2014-08-15 with total page 281 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: World Wars I and II changed the globe on a scale never seen before or since, and from these terrible conflicts came an abundance of photographs, drawings, and other artworks attempting to make sense of the turbulent era. In this generously illustrated book, Catherine Speck provides a fascinating account of women artists during wartime in America, Britain, Canada, Australia, and New Zealand, and their visual responses to war, both at the front lines and on the home front. In addition to following high-profile artists such as American photographer Lee Miller, Speck recounts the experiences of nurses, voluntary aides, and ambulance drivers who found the time to create astonishing artworks in the midst of war zones. She also describes the feelings of disempowerment revealed in the work done by women distant from the conflict. As Speck shows, women artists created highly charged emotional responses to the threats, sufferings, and horrors of war—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 atomic bombs. The first book to explore female creativity during these periods, Beyond the Battlefield delivers an insightful and meditative examination of this art that will appeal to readers of art history, war history, and cultural studies.

Author : Eleanor Tufts
Publisher :
ISBN 13 :
Total Pages : 340 pages
Book Rating : 4.81/5 ( download)

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Download or read book American women artists, past and present written by Eleanor Tufts and published by . This book was released on 1984 with total page 340 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: