The first major study of how American artists responded to World War I.
World War I had a profound impact on American art and culture. Nearly every major artist responded to events, whether as official war artists, impassioned observers, or as participants on the battlefields. It was the moment when American artists and designers began to consider the importance of their contributions to the wider world and visually represent America's emergent role in modern global conflict. World War I and American Art provides an unprecedented look at the ways in which American artists reacted to the war.
Artists took a leading role in chronicling the war, crafting images that influenced public opinion, supporting the government's mobilization efforts, and helping to shape how the war's appalling human toll was memorialized. Featuring works by artists ranging from Ivan Albright, George Bellows, Marsden Hartley, Childe Hassam, and Georgia O'Keeffe to Violet Oakley, Man Ray, John Singer Sargent, and Claggett Wilson, World War I and American Art brings together paintings, drawings, prints, photographs, posters, and ephemera, spanning the diverse visual culture of the period to tell the story of a crucial turning point in the history of American art.
Taking readers from the home front to the battlefront, this landmark book will remain the definitive reference on a pivotal moment in American modern art for years to come.
By:
Anne Classen Knutson
Edited by:
David M. Lubin,
Robert Cozzolino
Country of Publication: United States
Dimensions:
Height: 286mm,
Width: 241mm,
Spine: 36mm
Weight: 2.126kg
ISBN: 9780691172699
ISBN 10: 0691172692
Publication Date: 09 January 2017
Audience:
College/higher education
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A / AS level
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Further / Higher Education
Format: Hardback
Publisher's Status: Active
Foreword 7 David R. Brigham Introduction 11 Robert Cozzolino, Anne classen Knutson, and David M. Lubin America's Forgotten War and the Long Twentieth Century 19 David Reynolds Lies That Tell the Truth: American Artists in the Crucible of War 31 David M. Lubin Citizen-Consumers in the American Iconosphere during World War I 45 Pearl James Hidden in Plain Sight: World War I in the Art of John Marin, Georgia O'Keeffe, and Charles Burchfield 57 Anne Classen Knutson For the Privilege of Dying: The Crisis Takes On the War 73 Amy Helene Kirschke Battle over Sight: The Aerial Photographer and the Camoufleur 87 Jason Weems Burchfield's Armistice: Voice, Dissent, Painting 101 Alexander Nemerov Homecomings, Hauntings, Returns 113 Robert Cozzolino Plates 129 Selected Bibliography 291 Exhibition Checklist 299 Contributors 307 Acknowledgments 309 Lenders to the Exhibition 313 Index 315 Photography credits 319
Reviews for World War I and American Art
Impressive. --Karen Levenback, Virginia Woolf Miscellany
