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The Great War in Portraits

The Great War in Portraits

Paul Moorhouse and Sebastian Faulks

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In viewing the Great War through the portraits of those involved, Paul Moorhouse looks at the bitter-sweet nature of a conflict in which valour and selfless endeavour were qualified by disaster and suffering, and examines the notion of identity – how various individuals associated with the war were represented and perceived. The narrative is structured chronologically, with thematic sections devoted to conflicting pairs – ‘Royalty and the Assassin’, ‘Leaders and Followers’, ‘The Valiant and the Damned’ – which reveal the radical differences between those caught up in the conflict in terms of their respective roles, aspirations, experiences, and, ultimately, their destinies. ‘Leaders and Followers’, for example, examines the dichotomy between the representation of senior military leaders such as Blumer, Foch, Haig and Hindenburg, who were responsible for directing the war, and that of the ordinary soldiers charged with executing it. While portraits of the generals emphasise their personal profile, gallantry and the trappings of military power, paintings of the rank and file are characterised by a tendency to anonymity, in which individual identity was subsumed with the impression of ‘types’. Claude Rogers’s imposing painting Gassed, for instance, presented the individual soldier as a kind of cipher, a depersonalised embodiment of common, degraded experience. Illustrated throughout with images both well known and less familiar, the book concludes with a section entitled ‘Tradition and the Avant-Garde’, which focuses on the struggle artists faced in finding an appropriate language in which to depict those who had experienced the unimaginable horror at the front: either by resorting to the steadying hand of tradition or a radical visual language of expressive distortion.

Publisher
National Portrait Gallery
ISBN
9781855144682
Binding
Paperback
Page Extent
176
Weight (kg)
0
Height (in)
9.45
Width (in)
7.28
Subject
Art , Art - Modern & Contemporary
Published Date
27 / 02 / 2014

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