Constructing the Memory of War in Visual Culture since 1914

This collection provides a transnational, interdisciplinary perspective on artistic responses to war from 1914 to the present, analysing a broad selection of the rich, complex body of work which has emerged in response to conflicts since the Great War. Many of the creators examined here embody the human experience of war: first-hand witnesses who developed a unique visual language in direct response to their role as victim, soldier, refugee, resister, prisoner and embedded or official artist. Contributors address specific issues relating to propaganda, wartime femininity and masculinity, women as war artists, trauma, the role of art in soldiery, memory, art as resistance, identity and the memorialisation of war.

Ann Murray holds a PhD from University College Cork. She is currently writing a book on the war art of Otto Dix.

Table of Contents: List of Figures ForewordIntroductionAcknowledgements List of Contributors Part 1: Home Front Chapter 1: 'Picturing' World War I: German War Bond Posters and the Modern Public Claire Whitner Chapter 2: 'Our lovely countryside'. Capturing the Image of Britain at War in Commercial Advertising, 1939-1945 David Clampin Chapter 3: Picturing War's Affects on the Home Front during the First World War Catherine Speck Chapter 4: America's Forgotten Soldier Art: The World War Two Camp Art Peter Harrington Chapter 5: Official Art of World War II by British Women Artists: Directing the Gaze Elizabeth de Cacqueray Part II: Art, Activism and Resistance Chapter 6: Strategies of Liberation: Jean Dubuffet's Métro Series Caroline Perrett Chapter 7: Laughter at war Anna Markowska Chapter 8: Another Egyptian Revolution: Khayamiya as War Art Sam Bowker Chapter 9: Art and Conflict Resolution: Bloody Sunday, Northern Ireland Maebh O'Regan Chapter 10: Terms of Engagement: Critical Reflections in Contemporary Canadian War Art Christine Conley Part III: Traumatic Memory and Victimhood Chapter 11: Karlis Padegs' Red Laugh - the High Song of InsanityJanis Kalnacs Chapter 12: Vietnam: Memory of Desecration in Brian dePalma's Casualties of WarNanette Norris Chapter 13: The Soldier's Diary: A Record of Erased Time Agne NaruSyte Chapter 14: The Fakhouri File: Traumatic Memory in the work of Walid Raad Anna Rådström Chapter 15: Polyrhythmics and Migrating Voices Leonida Kovac Part IV: Collective Memory and Commemoration Chapter 16: A Paroxysm of Battle Painting: Adriano de Sousa Lopes and the Great War Carlos Silveira Chapter 17: Let There be No More War: Jack B. Yeats's Grief in Context Elizabeth Ansel Chapter 18: Remembering Port-Said 1956: Images of Popular Resistance in Egyptian Documentaries Rania Abdelrahman Chapter 19: Visualising an 'Orphaned' Nation: Orphan Photographs of the Korean War in Visual Culture Jung Joon Lee Chapter 20: A Lost State of Plenitude: Commemorating the Homeland War in Public Spaces in Croatia Sandra Krizic Roban