Aftermath: Art in the Wake of World War One

by Emma Chambers (Editor)

Paperback, 2018

Status

Available

Call number

704.9499403

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Publication

Tate Publishing (2018), 128 pages

Description

A remarkable study of responses to World War One in Britain, Germany, and France, this groundbreaking book is the first to examine the memorialization and the social and aesthetic impact of the Great War. It explores how memories of the conflict have been filtered through specific cultural forms and political agendas, ranging from memorial painting and sculpture to representations of the destruction of bodies and landscape, and new aesthetic developments in art that offered ways of critiquing and reimagining postwar society. From the presentation of wounded war veterans to critiques of postwar corruption and poverty, Aftermath seeks to broaden the examination of war and memory beyond the modernist canon to show how both traditional and avant-garde art formed part of this process.… (more)

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LibraryThing member CarltonC
This book is a catalogue of the 2018 Tate Britain exhibition, which explored how memories of the First World War were incorporated into the art of Britain, France and Germany in the following 15 years.
The various essays (about war memorials, Dada and surrealism, revivals of neo-classicism and
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realism) are thought provoking, even if I didn’t agree with all the ideas suggested, and they usefully reminded me and expanded my understanding of the period.
Disappointingly, the book is smaller than most exhibition catalogues, which makes it more difficult to appreciate the illustrations, especially the illustrations of items not in the exhibition itself, but used to expand upon issues in the essays, and I hadn’t really considered this as a requirement of exhibition catalogues before. Overall, it is a useful reminder of the exhibition, but I suspect that other books more successfully address issues that can only be noted here due to lack of space.
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Language

Original language

English

Physical description

128 p.; 7.5 inches

ISBN

1849765677 / 9781849765671

Barcode

91100000178081

DDC/MDS

704.9499403
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