Edward Bawden In The Middle East

Author : Nigel Weaver
Publisher : Antique Collectors Club Dist
ISBN 13 :
Total Pages : 102 pages
Book Rating : 4.63/5 ( download)

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Download or read book Edward Bawden in the Middle East written by Nigel Weaver and published by Antique Collectors Club Dist. This book was released on 2008 with total page 102 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: Edward Bawden had already established a growing reputation as a printmaker, designer and book illustrator when, at the age of 36 he was appointed one of the original five Official War Artists for the Second World War. Between 1940 and 1944, during his two tours of duty in the Middle East, he produced some acclaimed watercolours, which immediately gave him an entirely new standing among contemporary artists. Deprived of access to the linocuts and engraving that he had already mastered, and without the demand for the humorous advertisements that had endeared him to Shell and London Transport, he devoted himself for the first time to portraiture as well as to his already well-developed interest in topography. Travelling extensively throughout Iraq, Iran and Saudi Arabia he developed new techniques, perfected his eye, relaxed his approach and produced some of his most memorable watercolours. After being evacuated from Dunkirk in 1940, Bawden spent the greater part of his appointment in the Middle East where he weathered extremes of climate, three bouts of malaria, walked some 300 miles with a regiment engaged in freeing Ethiopia, and spent five days in an open boat awaiting rescue. He was particularly keen to spend time with the people of the Middle East, who seemed to live in such markedly different times, and eagerly recorded the indigenous Marsh Arabs' way of life. Bawden's paintings depict not only the Middle East during wartime, but also a Middle East that no longer exists. Within 15 years of Bawden's departure in 1944, Iraq's monarchy had been swept away and the country's transformation into a radicalised Arab state was underway. This book brings together forty-five of Bawden's watercolours from this period, now housed in the Imperial War Museum collection and many published here for the first time, to produce a fascinating insight into Bawden's view of the Middle East. Alongside these evocative images the text traces Bawden's life and career, in particular his time as an Official War Artist; a chapter by Robin O'Neill sets the political context in which the allied forces and Bawden found themselves during the war, and sketches the drastically changed political scenery since then; finally, we hear from Bawden in his own words through two articles originally published in The Geographical Magazine in 1945.

Author : Edward Bawden
Publisher :
ISBN 13 :
Total Pages : 128 pages
Book Rating : 4.37/5 ( download)

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Download or read book Edward Bawden, War Artist, and His Letters Home, 1940-45 written by Edward Bawden and published by . This book was released on 1989 with total page 128 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: Letters dated March 3, 1940-May 2, 1945, chiefly to Bawden's wife Charlotte, with a few to his parents.

Author : Brian Foss
Publisher : Yale University Press
ISBN 13 : 9780300108903
Total Pages : 280 pages
Book Rating : 4.07/5 ( download)

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Download or read book War Paint written by Brian Foss and published by Yale University Press. This book was released on 2007-01-01 with total page 280 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: In this groundbreaking examination of British war art during the Second World War, Brian Foss delves deeply into what art meant to Britain and its people at a time when the nation's very survival was under threat. Foss probes the impact of war art on the relations between art, state patronage, and public interest in art, and he considers how this period of duress affected the trajectory of British Modernism. Supported by some two hundred illustrations and extensive archival research, the book offers the richest, most nuanced view of mid-century art and artists in Britain yet written. The author focuses closely on Sir Kenneth Clark's influential War Artists' Advisory Committee and explores topics ranging from censorship to artists' finances, from the depiction of women as war workers to the contributions of war art to evolving notions of national identity and Britishness. Lively and insightful, the book adds new dimensions to the study of British art and cultural history.

Author : Richard Knott
Publisher : The History Press
ISBN 13 : 0752493930
Total Pages : 307 pages
Book Rating : 4.30/5 ( download)

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Download or read book The Sketchbook War written by Richard Knott and published by The History Press. This book was released on 2013-06-01 with total page 307 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: During the Second World War, British artists produced over 6,000 works of war art, but this is not a book about art, rather the stories of nine courageous war artists who ventured closer to the front line than any others in their profession. Edward Ardizzone, Edward Bawden, Barnett Freedman, Anthony Gross, Thomas Hennell, Eric Ravilious, Albert Richards, Richard Seddon, and John Worsley all travelled abroad into the dangers of war to chronicle events by painting them. They formed a close bond, yet two were torpedoed, two were taken prisoner and three died, two in 1945 when the war was nearly over. Men who had previously made a comfortable living painting in studios were transformed by military uniforms and experiences that were to shape the rest of their lives, and their work significantly influenced the way in which we view war today. Portraying how war and art came together in a moving and dramatic way, and incorporating vivid examples of their paintings, this is the true story behind the war artists who fought, lived and died for their art on the front line of the Second World War.

Author : James Maude Richards
Publisher : Harmondsworth, Penguin
ISBN 13 :
Total Pages : 56 pages
Book Rating : 4.88/5 ( download)

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Download or read book Edward Bawden written by James Maude Richards and published by Harmondsworth, Penguin. This book was released on 1946 with total page 56 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt:

Author : Helen Binyon
Publisher : Lutterworth Press
ISBN 13 : 0718844882
Total Pages : 145 pages
Book Rating : 4.82/5 ( download)

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Download or read book Eric Ravilious written by Helen Binyon and published by Lutterworth Press. This book was released on 2016-10-25 with total page 145 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: Eric Ravilious was among the foremost of English artists to emerge between the wars - and one of the great original wood engravers. His body of work was wide-ranging and multi-faceted; in his relatively short career after he left the Royal College of Art he produced an extraordinary amount of work - murals, watercolours, wood engravings, lithographs, pottery designs for Wedgwood. Successful and enterprising as he was in these diverse fields, it was in the field of landscape painting in watercolour that Ravilious excelled. His tragic and untimely death in 1942, while on service as an Official War Artist, meant that his great promise was never fulfilled and it has been left to Helen Binyon to present this fascinating study of the artist to aworld largely unaware of his presence. The author knew Ravilious well from their student days and has been able to draw upon her intimate knowledge of this vivid and exciting artist to make this a compelling account of a genius.Eric Ravilious is introduced by Richard Morphet, former Keeper of Modern Art at the Tate Gallery, who places Ravilious in the context of modern-day appreciation of his work and describes the close relationship between Eric Ravilious and Helen Binyon, which led her to write this illuminating book.The book is lavishly illustrated with examples of Ravilious's work from his student days to his powerfully realised drawings and paintings as an Official War Artist.

Author : Imperial War Museum (Great Britain)
Publisher :
ISBN 13 :
Total Pages : 272 pages
Book Rating : 4.20/5 ( download)

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Download or read book A Concise Catalogue of Paintings, Drawings, and Sculpture of the Second World War written by Imperial War Museum (Great Britain) and published by . This book was released on 1964 with total page 272 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt:

Author : Peyton Skipwith
Publisher : Victoria & Albert Museum
ISBN 13 : 9781851776559
Total Pages : 0 pages
Book Rating : 4.59/5 ( download)

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Download or read book Edward Bawden's London written by Peyton Skipwith and published by Victoria & Albert Museum. This book was released on 2011-10-01 with total page 0 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: Draws together the best of Bawden's pieces of work.

Author : Douglas Percy Bliss
Publisher :
ISBN 13 :
Total Pages : 208 pages
Book Rating : 4.57/5 ( download)

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Download or read book Edward Bawden written by Douglas Percy Bliss and published by . This book was released on 1979 with total page 208 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt:

Author : Aomar Boum
Publisher : Stanford University Press
ISBN 13 : 1503632008
Total Pages : 515 pages
Book Rating : 4.04/5 ( download)

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Download or read book Wartime North Africa written by Aomar Boum and published by Stanford University Press. This book was released on 2022-07-05 with total page 515 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: This book, the first-ever collection of primary documents on North African history and the Holocaust, gives voice to the diversity of those involved—Muslims, Christians, and Jews; women, men, and children; black, brown, and white; the unknown and the notable; locals, refugees, the displaced, and the interned; soldiers, officers, bureaucrats, volunteer fighters, and the forcibly recruited. At times their calls are lofty, full of spiritual lamentation and political outrage. At others, they are humble, yearning for medicine, a cigarette, or a pair of shoes. Translated from French, Arabic, North African Judeo-Arabic, Spanish, Hebrew, Moroccan Darija, Tamazight (Berber), Italian, and Yiddish, or transcribed from their original English, these writings shed light on how war, occupation, race laws, internment, and Vichy French, Italian fascist, and German Nazi rule were experienced day by day across North Africa. Though some selections are drawn from published books, including memoirs, diaries, and collections of poetry, most have never been published before, nor previously translated into English. These human experiences, combined, make up the history of wartime North Africa.