Art, Poetry and WW1

By:

Edward Lucie-Smith

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Paperback / softback

Series:

CV/Visual Arts Research

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In this study 'Art, Poetry and WW1, by Edward Lucue-Smith of writing, poetry and painting In the Centenary Year of the outbreak of the First World War the author considers the historical impact on the general psyche of the calamitous events, reflected in the expression of poets and visual artists. The volume includes Eric Kennington, CRW Nevinson, John Singer Sargent, William Orpen, Stanley Spencer and Paul Nash; and writers Siegfried Sassoon, Isaac Rosenberg, Wilfred Owen, Edward Thomas and T.S. Eliot. In Europe the painters: Otto Dix, Max Beckman, Franz Marc, Gino Severini, Ernst Ludwig Kirchner, Ludwig Meidner. He establishes a continuity to the theme with reference to works by Velazquez, Watteau, Goya and others, in their treatment of the spectacle of battle and the horrors of human conflict.

Author Biography:

Edward Lucie-Smith has published more than more than sixty books about art, chiefly but not exclusively about contemporary work. A number of his art books, among them Movements in Art since 1945 , Visual Arts of the 20th Century, He has been curator of a number of international exhibitions and is curator of the Bermondsey Project Space in London SE1

Release date Australia

December 25th, 2014

Author

Edward Lucie-Smith

Audience

General (US: Trade)

Illustrations

Colour/bw ill.

Pages

Series

CV/Visual Arts Research

ISBN-13

9781908419880

Product ID

21597624

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