The Air War in Paintings
Autor Suzanne Bardgetten Limba Engleză Hardback – 22 aug 2024
The Air War in Paintings reveals how the artists of the 1940s responded to the unfolding air war in Britain, illuminating their private anxieties, their ambitions and their experiences. Drawing on the Imperial War Museum’s unrivalled collection, this richly illustrated book explores how war artists recorded and documented all aspects of the vast efforts to build Britain’s air capacity at a crucial time in its history
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Specificații
ISBN-13: 9781912423750
ISBN-10: 1912423758
Pagini: 192
Ilustrații: 85 colour
Dimensiuni: 5969 x 5969 x 23 mm
Greutate: 1.17 kg
Editura: Unicorn Publishing Group
Colecția Imperial War Museums
ISBN-10: 1912423758
Pagini: 192
Ilustrații: 85 colour
Dimensiuni: 5969 x 5969 x 23 mm
Greutate: 1.17 kg
Editura: Unicorn Publishing Group
Colecția Imperial War Museums
Recenzii
Elegantly written and lavishly illustrated – a gripping study of art and war by one of UK’s experts.
Joanna Bourke, Professor Emerita of History, Birkbeck, University of London
In the Second World War few combatant nations devoted as much material and human resources to the war in the air as the British. With every aspect of the nation's war effort linked to aviation, it was a subject with a huge profile in wartime discourse. Suzanne Bardgett's fascinating exploration of the visual representation of the air war reveals the depth and breadth of the images created, under official sponsorship, and how they have become iconic of a nation in the midst of total war.
Mark Connelly, Professor of Modern History, University of Kent
Suzanne Bardgett has assembled a beautifully reproduced and presented array of paintings dedicated to Britain’s war in the air. Her astute choice of paintings (accompanied by an authoritative commentary) encompasses not just flyboy glamour, but the more mundane material and human infrastructure of airfields and workshops that sustained them. Particularly commendable in this expertly-curated selection is the significant presence of women, both as subjects and artists, while all the paintings allow us a unique access to the intimate and quotidian dimension to total war.
Martin Francis, Professor of War and History, University of Sussex
Joanna Bourke, Professor Emerita of History, Birkbeck, University of London
In the Second World War few combatant nations devoted as much material and human resources to the war in the air as the British. With every aspect of the nation's war effort linked to aviation, it was a subject with a huge profile in wartime discourse. Suzanne Bardgett's fascinating exploration of the visual representation of the air war reveals the depth and breadth of the images created, under official sponsorship, and how they have become iconic of a nation in the midst of total war.
Mark Connelly, Professor of Modern History, University of Kent
Suzanne Bardgett has assembled a beautifully reproduced and presented array of paintings dedicated to Britain’s war in the air. Her astute choice of paintings (accompanied by an authoritative commentary) encompasses not just flyboy glamour, but the more mundane material and human infrastructure of airfields and workshops that sustained them. Particularly commendable in this expertly-curated selection is the significant presence of women, both as subjects and artists, while all the paintings allow us a unique access to the intimate and quotidian dimension to total war.
Martin Francis, Professor of War and History, University of Sussex
Notă biografică
Suzanne Bardgett is Head of Research & Academic Partnerships at the Imperial War Museum. She is also the author of Wartime London in Paintings (2020).