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Artistic Expressions and the Great War, A Hundred Years On

by Sally Debra Charnow (Volume editor)
©2020 Edited Collection XVIII, 344 Pages
Series: Cultural Memories, Volume 15

Summary

The Great War set in motion all of the subsequent violence of the twentieth century. The war took millions of lives, led to the fall of four empires, established new nations, and negatively affected others. During and after the war, individuals and communities struggled to find expression for their wartime encounters and communal as well as individual mourning. Throughout this time of enormous upheaval, many artists redefined their role in society, among them writers, performers, painters, and composers. Some sought to renew or re-establish their place in the postwar climate, while others longed for an irretrievable past, and still others tried to break with the past entirely.
This volume offers a significant interdisciplinary contribution to the study of modern war, exploring the ways that artists contributed to wartime culture – both representing and shaping it – as well as the ways in which wartime culture influenced artistic expressions. Artists’ places within and against reconstruction efforts illuminate the struggles of the day. The essays included represent a transnational perspective and seek to examine how artists dealt with the experience of conflict and mourning and their role in (re-)establishing creative practices in the changing climate of the interwar years.
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Details

Pages
XVIII, 344
Publication Year
2020
ISBN (PDF)
9781789974058
ISBN (ePUB)
9781789974065
ISBN (MOBI)
9781789974072
ISBN (Softcover)
9781789974041
DOI
10.3726/b15605
Language
English
Publication date
2021 (January)
Keywords
First World War culture and art Great War commemoration and memory cultural modernism
Published
Oxford, Bern, Berlin, Bruxelles, New York, Wien, 2020. XVIII, 344 pp., 30 fig. col., 30 fig. b/w.

Biographical notes

Sally Debra Charnow (Volume editor)

Sally Debra Charnow is Professor of Modern European, Postcolonial History, and Women, Gender, and Sexuality Studies at Hofstra University. She brings together her interdisciplinary training in Performance Studies and History in her research and writing on issues related to cultural production, art and politics, and minority subcultures in modern France and beyond. She is the author of Theatre, Politics and Markets in Fin-de-Siècle Paris: Staging Modernity (2005) and Edmond Fleg and Jewish Minority Culture in Twentieth-Century France (forthcoming). Her articles and reviews have appeared in Revising Dreyfus: Art and Law (2013), Radical History Review, American Historical Review, French History, Modern and Contemporary France, and H-France.

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