War Paint: Art, War, State and Identity in Britain, 1939-1945

by Brian Foss

In this groundbreaking examination of British war art during the Second World War, Brian Foss delves deeply into what art meant to Britain and its people at a time when the nation's very survival was under threat. Foss probes the impact of war art on the relations between art, state patronage, and public interest in art, and he considers how this period of duress affected the trajectory of British Modernism. Supported by some two hundred illustrations...

• Format: Hardcover
• Language: English
• ISBN: 0300108907
• ISBN13: 9780300108903
• Release Date: September 2007
• Publisher: Paul Mellon Centre
• Length: 264 Pages
• Weight: 2.90 lbs.
• Dimensions: 0.9" x 8.8" x 10.8"