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Book SynopsisExamines the relationship between war painting and collective memory in Australia, Austria, Belgium, Canada, Croatia, France, Germany, Great Britain, New Zealand, Russia, Serbia, Turkey, and the United States. The paintings discussed vary tremendously, ranging from public murals and panoramas to works on a far more intimate scale.
Trade ReviewPortraits of Remembrance is a welcome addition to scholarship on commemoration and memory of the First World War." - Pearl James, author of
The New Death: American Modernism and World War ITable of Contents
- List of Illustrations
- Acknowledgments
- Introduction
- Painting, Memory, and the First World War
- Margaret Hutchison and Steven Trout
- Chapter 1. En Souvenir: Albert Herter's Le DÉpart des Poilus, at Paris-Est
- Mark Levitch
- Chapter 2. Romaine Brooks's La France CroisÉe: Allegory, Androgyny, and Appropriation
- Elizabeth Richards Rivenbark 000
- Chapter 3. A “rush frÉnÉtique”: Representation, Memory, and Georges Scott's La Brigade Marine AmÉricaine au Bois de Belleau
- Steven Trout
- Chapter 4. An Ambivalent Patriot: Namik Ismail, the First World War, and the Politics of Remembrance in Turkey
- Gizem Tongo
- Chapter 5. Albin Egger-Lienz's Die Namenlosen 1914: Vienna Painters and the Great War
- Philip D. Beidler
- Chapter 6. Russia, Memory, and the Great War: Kuzma Petrov-Vodkin's In the Line of Fire
- Andrew M. Nedd
- Chapter 7. The Canadians Opposite Lens: Augustus John's Unfinished First World War Canadian Masterpiece
- Laura Brandon
- Chapter 8. Sacrifice, Grief, and National Memory in George Edmund Butler's Butte de Polygon
- Caroline Lord
- Chapter 9. Gatekeeper of Memory: The Australian War Memorial and Charles Bryant's HMAS Australia on the Way to Her Doom
- Margaret Hutchison
- Chapter 10. Fortunino Matania's Goodbye, Old Man
- Marguerite Helmers
- Chapter 11. James Clark's The Great Sacrifice
- Peter Harrington
- Chapter 12. Maksimilijan Vanka's Our Mothers and the Croatian Memory of the First World War
- Heidi A. Cook
- Chapter 13. Der Krieg: Otto Dix's War Triptych, Memory, and the Perception of the First World War
- Martin Bayer
- Chapter 14. From Propaganda to Remembrance: Alfred Bastien's The Panorama of the Yser Battle
- Sandrine Smets
- Afterword
- Jay Winter
- Bibliography
- Contributors
- Index
