Re: WWI art literature

Dear Chris, Many thanks for this long and interesting list of useful literature. Yes, I do read German, learnt it at school and studied it at university. And I do sometimes "understand" some Dutch, too. To me, it sometimes feels like a mixture of German (Platt-Deutsch), English, and Swedish, and I can often get the gist of a text. It would be interesting to make a deeper study into the Art of the WWI, not "only" the poetry of it. An Oxford online course covering the art and music of the WWI, perhaps? Best wishes Elsa --- On Fri, 26/8/11, Christopher <cspriet@gmail.com> wrote: From: Christopher <cspriet@gmail.com> Subject: Re: WWI art literature To: "World War One Literature" <ww1lit@googlegroups.com> Date: Friday, 26 August, 2011, 8:33 Dear Elsa, You might find the following an interesting introduction (if you read German, that is): Brigitte Hamann, Der Erste Weltkrieg. Wahrheit und Lüge in Bildern und Texten (Serie Piper). I doubt whether this exists in an English version. Other representative books on the subjects you are inquiring for are: * Posters of the First World War (selected and reviewed by Maurice Rickards (Evelyn, Adams & MacKay) * Peter Paret, Beth Irwin Lewis & Paul Paret, Persuasive Images. Posters of War and Revolution (Princeton University Press, N.Y.) * John Keegan & Joseph Darracott, The Nature of War (Holt, Rinehart & Winston, N.Y.) * Mark Bryant, World War I in Cartoons (Grub Street, London) Finally, I should like to mention this: Dead.Lines. Oorlog, Media en Propaganda in de 20ste Eeuw (Ludion, Gent- Amsterdam). This is the catalogue (available only in Dutch, however) of the exhibition of the same name which was on at the In Flanders Fields Museum, Ieper (Ypres) in 2002. As the title suggests, this covers the whole of the previous century. You will find that the range of subjects the majority of available books deals with is wider than merely World War I, the thesis being that owing to the availability and the persuasive powers of the mass media, the use of the visual arts as a means of propaganda really and finally came of age during WWI. Don't forget that, to some extent, music served a comparable purpose. A highly interesting book on the impact of film-making on the (intended) 'reception' of the war 'at home' is: George Malins, How I filmed the war. Kind regards Chris On 25 aug, 08:53, Elsa Franker <elsafran...@yahoo.co.uk> wrote: > Dear all, > > During the WWI much poetry and literature was written, as we have seen. But much art, - painting, drawing, propaganda posters, and sculpture, etc - was created, too. > > We studied some of it in The English Poetry of the First World War course.  But I would think that there is much literature about the WWI art written, too, literature written by art historians. I have tried to find useful titles, but not been very successful. > > There are a number of web sites to explore, but is there any good and readable literature about the art of the WWI? There are some publishers specialising in art literature.  > > Would you know any titles that you could recommend me? > > Best wishes > > Elsa -- You received this message because you are subscribed to the Google Groups "World War One Literature" group. To post to this group, send email to ww1lit@googlegroups.com. To unsubscribe from this group, send email to ww1lit+unsubscribe@googlegroups.com. For more options, visit this group at http://groups.google.com/group/ww1lit?hl=en.

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