Constructing the Memory of War in Visual Culture since 1914 The Eye on War

This collection provides a transnational, interdisciplinary perspective on artistic responses to war from 1914 to the present, analysing a broad selection of the rich, complex body of work which has emerged in response to conflicts since the Great War. Many of the creators examined here embody the human experience of war: first-hand witnesses who developed a unique visual language in direct response to their role as victim, soldier, refugee, resister, prisoner and embedded or official artist. Contributors address specific issues relating to propaganda, wartime femininity and masculinity, women as war artists, trauma, the role of art in soldiery, memory, art as resistance, identity and the memorialisation of war.

Table of Contents: List of FiguresForewordIntroductionAcknowledgementsList of Contributors Part 1: Home FrontChapter 1: ‘Picturing’ World War I: German War Bond Posters and the Modern PublicClaire WhitnerChapter 2: ‘Our lovely countryside’. Capturing the Image of Britain at War in Commercial Advertising, 1939–1945David ClampinChapter 3: Picturing War’s Affects on the Home Front during the First World War Catherine Speck Chapter 4: America’s Forgotten Soldier Art: The World War Two Camp ArtPeter Harrington Chapter 5: Official Art of World War II by British Women Artists: Directing the GazeElizabeth de Cacqueray Part II: Art, Activism and Resistance Chapter 6: Strategies of Liberation: Jean Dubuffet’s Métro SeriesCaroline Perrett Chapter 7: Laughter at warAnna Markowska Chapter 8: Another Egyptian Revolution: Khayamiya as War ArtSam Bowker Chapter 9: Art and Conflict Resolution: Bloody Sunday, Northern IrelandMaebh O’Regan Chapter 10: Terms of Engagement: Critical Reflections in Contemporary Canadian War ArtChristine Conley Part III: Traumatic Memory and Victimhood Chapter 11: Karlis Padegs’ Red Laugh – the High Song of InsanityJanis Kalnacs Chapter 12: Vietnam: Memory of Desecration in Brian dePalma’s Casualties of WarNanette Norris Chapter 13: The Soldier’s Diary: A Record of Erased TimeAgne Narušyte Chapter 14: The Fakhouri File: Traumatic Memory in the work of Walid RaadAnna Rådström Chapter 15: Polyrhythmics and Migrating VoicesLeonida Kovac Part IV: Collective Memory and Commemoration Chapter 16: A Paroxysm of Battle Painting: Adriano de Sousa Lopes and the Great War Carlos Silveira Chapter 17: Let There be No More War: Jack B. Yeats’s Grief in ContextElizabeth Ansel Chapter 18: Remembering Port-Said 1956: Images of Popular Resistance in Egyptian DocumentariesRania Abdelrahman Chapter 19: Visualising an ‘Orphaned’ Nation: Orphan Photographs of the Korean War in Visual CultureJung Joon Lee Chapter 20: A Lost State of Plenitude: Commemorating the Homeland War inPublic Spaces in Croatia Sandra Križic Roban

Ann Murray holds a PhD from University College Cork. She is currently writing a book on the war art of Otto Dix.