Imagined Fronts: The Great War and Global Media
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Author: Benson, Timothy O.
The media spectacle in which we live today has origins in World War I and the burgeoning array of newspapers, ephemera, photography and the new medium of cinema that made it the first global media war. This book examines the war through paintings, sculpture, posters, photographs, film stills and the graphic arts, showing how it affected the arts between 1914 and 1930, and the role of media in constructing a global “imagined community” that could be accepted as part of the war effort.The war’s battlefields and contingent spaces became perhaps the most international human endeavor hitherto undertaken, with most Eastern and Western European countries and the Ottoman Empire involved, as well as forces from Australia, Canada, Asia, the Middle East and Africa, and Indigenous peoples including Māori, First Peoples and Choctaw “code talkers.”
Artists include: Johannes Baader, Ernst Barlach, Max Beckmann, George Bellows, Edith Collier, Raymond Desvarreux, Otto Dix, Raoul Dufy, Lyonel Feininger, Natalia Goncharova, George Grosz, Mary Riter Hamilton, Hannah Höch, Willy Jaeckel, Käthe Kollwitz, Percy Wyndham Lewis, Filippo Tommaso Marinetti, Moriz Melzer, et al.
ISBN 9781636810904. DelMonico Books/Los Angeles County Museum of Art. hb. 224 pages. 216 colour ills. 29.8 x 21 cm.
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The media spectacle in which we live today has origins in World War I and the burgeoning array of newspapers, ephemera, photography and the new medium of cinema that made it the first global media war. This book examines the war through paintings, sculpture, posters, photographs, film stills and the graphic arts, showing how it affected the arts between 1914 and 1930, and the role of media in constructing a global “imagined community” that could be accepted as part of the war effort.The war’s battlefields and contingent spaces became perhaps the most international human endeavor hitherto undertaken, with most Eastern and Western European countries and the Ottoman Empire involved, as well as forces from Australia, Canada, Asia, the Middle East and Africa, and Indigenous peoples including Māori, First Peoples and Choctaw “code talkers.”
Artists include: Johannes Baader, Ernst Barlach, Max Beckmann, George Bellows, Edith Collier, Raymond Desvarreux, Otto Dix, Raoul Dufy, Lyonel Feininger, Natalia Goncharova, George Grosz, Mary Riter Hamilton, Hannah Höch, Willy Jaeckel, Käthe Kollwitz, Percy Wyndham Lewis, Filippo Tommaso Marinetti, Moriz Melzer, et al.
ISBN 9781636810904. DelMonico Books/Los Angeles County Museum of Art. hb. 224 pages. 216 colour ills. 29.8 x 21 cm.
available