Dispatches From An Unofficial War Artist

Author : Peter Kennard
Publisher : Ben Uri Gallery & Museum
ISBN 13 :
Total Pages : 120 pages
Book Rating : 4.40/5 ( download)

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Download or read book Dispatches from an Unofficial War Artist written by Peter Kennard and published by Ben Uri Gallery & Museum. This book was released on 2000 with total page 120 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: For more than twenty-five years, Peter Kennard has used his skills as a polemical artist to produce an astonishing collection of political photomontage images and installation work.Trained in Fine Art, Kennard abandoned painting in the 1970s in search of a new form of expression that could bring art and politics together for a wider audience. Written from a highly personal perspective, Dispatches from an Unofficial War Artist traces Kennard's artistic, political and personal development, from his early paintings in a coalshed, to art school and to a number of left-wing and radical campaigns, including those for CND. It brings together Kennard's own musings on his childhood, art, international politics and British society to make for a fascinating portrait of the times and of Kennard himself.In her introduction, Amanda Hopkinson discusses the historical roots of Kennard's work, examining Constructivism, the development of photography and photomontage, and the close relationship between art, politics and propaganda. Kennard himself writes about the possibilities of undertaking an aesthetic practice in relation to social change, and considers how his art has interacted with the politics of actual events. The narrative is thematic rather than chronological, showing how a visual motif can be re-used in different contexts. Kennard's original artwork is often reproduced alongside the newspaper or poster in which it appeared.

Author : Peter Kennard
Publisher : Imperial War Museums
ISBN 13 : 9781904897712
Total Pages : 0 pages
Book Rating : 4.11/5 ( download)

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Download or read book Unofficial War Artist written by Peter Kennard and published by Imperial War Museums. This book was released on 2015 with total page 0 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: Published to accompany the exhibition of the same name held at IWM London, 14th May 2015-30th May 2015.

Author : Laura Brandon
Publisher : Bloomsbury Publishing
ISBN 13 : 0857710583
Total Pages : 193 pages
Book Rating : 4.81/5 ( download)

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Download or read book Art and War written by Laura Brandon and published by Bloomsbury Publishing. This book was released on 2012-11-25 with total page 193 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: This is a truly encyclopedic survey of artists' responses - both 'official' and personal - to 'the horrors of war'. "Art and War" reveals the sheer diversity of artists' portrayals of this most devastating aspect of the human condition - from the 'heroic' paintings of Benjamin West and John Singer Sargent to brutal and iconic works by artists from Goya to Picasso, and the equally oppositional work of Leon Golub, Nancy Spero and others who reacted with fury to the Vietnam War. Laura Brandon pays particular attention to work produced in response to World War I and World War II, as well as to more recent art and memorial work by artists as diverse as Barbara Kruger, Alfredo Jarr and Maya Lin. She looks finally to the reactions of contemporary artists such as Langlands and Bell to the US invasion in 2001 of Afghanistan and the 'War on Terror'.

Author : Alan Ingram
Publisher : John Wiley & Sons
ISBN 13 : 1119426057
Total Pages : 234 pages
Book Rating : 4.59/5 ( download)

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Download or read book Geopolitics and the Event written by Alan Ingram and published by John Wiley & Sons. This book was released on 2019-08-19 with total page 234 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: An original exploration of the 2003 Iraq war and geopolitics more broadly through the prism of art. Offers a reappraisal of one of the most contentious and consequential events of the early twenty-first century Advances an original perspective on Britain’s role in the 2003 invasion and subsequent occupation of Iraq Maps out new ways of thinking about geopolitical events through art Examines the work of artists, curators and activists in light of Britain’s role as a colonial power in Iraq and the importance of oil Reflects on the significance, limits and dilemmas of art as a form of critical intervention Questions the implications of art in colonialism and modernity

Author : Jonathan Hogg
Publisher : Routledge
ISBN 13 : 1000395162
Total Pages : 171 pages
Book Rating : 4.67/5 ( download)

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Download or read book British Nuclear Mobilisation Since 1945 written by Jonathan Hogg and published by Routledge. This book was released on 2021-05-18 with total page 171 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: This book explores aspects of the social and cultural history of nuclear Britain in the Cold War era (1945–1991) and contributes to a more multivalent exploration of the consequences of nuclear choices which are too often left unacknowledged by historians of post-war Britain. In the years after 1945, the British government mobilised money, scientific knowledge, people and military–industrial capacity to create both an independent nuclear deterrent and the generation of electricity through nuclear reactors. This expensive and vast ‘technopolitical’ project, mostly top-secret and run by small sub-committees within government, was central to broader Cold War strategy and policy. Recent attempts to map the resulting social and cultural history of these military–industrial policy decisions suggest that nuclear mobilisation had far-reaching consequences for British life. The chapters in this book were originally published as a special issue of Contemporary British History.

Author : John A. Walker
Publisher : Bloomsbury Publishing
ISBN 13 : 0857714317
Total Pages : 305 pages
Book Rating : 4.12/5 ( download)

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Download or read book Left Shift written by John A. Walker and published by Bloomsbury Publishing. This book was released on 2001-12-21 with total page 305 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: John Walker brings to vivid life a neglected period in twentieth-century art history. He re-creates a time when visual fine artists, under the impact of left-wing politics, women's liberation and the gay movement, were seeking to re-establish a social purpose. His story is one of a struggle for art by contending factions in the art world, in which artists, curators, critics and organisations - both establishment and alternative - key exhibitions, galleries and magazines, all play a part. He offers welcome insight into the work of the key players and the many forms they used to express radical engagement in the events of the decade.

Author : Will Bradley
Publisher : Tate
ISBN 13 :
Total Pages : 494 pages
Book Rating : 4.82/5 ( download)

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Download or read book Art and Social Change written by Will Bradley and published by Tate. This book was released on 2007 with total page 494 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: "This reader gathers together an international selection of artists' proposals, manifestos, theoretical texts and public declarations that focus on the question of political engagement and the possibility of social change"--Back cover.

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ISBN 13 :
Total Pages : 416 pages
Book Rating : 4.80/5 ( download)

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Download or read book Eye written by and published by . This book was released on 2000 with total page 416 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt:

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ISBN 13 :
Total Pages : 440 pages
Book Rating : 4.73/5 ( download)

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Download or read book Creative Camera written by and published by . This book was released on 1983 with total page 440 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt:

Author : Gill Saunders
Publisher : Victoria & Albert Museum
ISBN 13 :
Total Pages : 152 pages
Book Rating : 4.35/5 ( download)

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Download or read book Prints Now written by Gill Saunders and published by Victoria & Albert Museum. This book was released on 2006-04 with total page 152 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: Printmaking has changed radically in the past two decades- the fine art print now encompasses everything from billboards and badges to clothes, cakes and carrier bags. In a series of case studies dealing with individual artists, new media and techniques, Prints Now explores these new directions and expanded definitions. Illustrated with one hundred wide-ranging examples, it is not only an invaluable resource for collectors and students of the new, but a revelation about the possibilities and potential of this infinitely flexible, infinitely accessible art form. It is the first general survey of contemporary printmaking to be published for ten years.