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Art, Poetry and WW1

Art, Poetry and WW1

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ISBN10: 1908419881
ISBN13: 9781908419880
Publisher: Cv Pubn
Published: Oct 5 2023
Pages: 46
Weight: 0.84
Height: 0.25 Width: 8.00 Depth: 10.00
Language: English
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 Velázquez, Watteau, Goya and others, in their treatment of the spectacle of battle and the horrors of war and human conflict.

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