Название: Portraits of Remembrance: Painting, Memory, and the First World War (War, Memory, and Culture)
Автор: Margaret Hutchison, Steven Trout
Издательство: University Alabama Press
ISBN: 0817320504
Год: 2020
Формат: PDF
Страниц: 352
Размер: 41,8 МБ
Язык: Английский

Although photography and moving pictures achieved ubiquity during the First World War as technological means of recording history, the far more traditional medium of paint­ing played a vital role in the visual culture of combatant nations. The public’s appetite for the kind of up-close frontline action that snapshots and film footage could not yet pro­vide resulted in a robust market for drawn or painted battle scenes.