It is unspeakable, godless, hopeless. I am no longer an artist interested and curious. I am a messenger who will bring back word from the men who are fighting to those who want the war to go on forever. Feeble, inarticulate, will be my message, but it will have a bitter truth. - Paul Nash, 1918, at Passchendaele.
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It is unspeakable, godless, hopeless. I am no longer an artist interested and curious. I am a messenger who will bring back word from the men who are fighting to those who want the war to go on forever. Feeble, inarticulate, will be my message, but it will have a bitter truth. - Paul Nash, 1918, at Passchendaele.
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VG-(ex-library w/ stamps to textblock edges, usual markings, etc. shelf-wear & rubbing to lower cover edges & corners. pgs lightly edge-toned; clean. dustjacket taped to cover edges; ID to lower spine; plastic cover scuffed & scratched) Grey cloth boards with white stamped lettering on spine. Color-illustrated dust jacket with red and black lettering; protective plastic. 336 pp. Illustrations in BW and color. Photo is of a previous copy from our collection. From a college library. Due date card has one removal stamp. A nice copy. "The trauma of the First World War had an immensely powerful effect on the painters, sculptors, and printmakers who participated in it. They produced an extraordinary range of striking images that conveyed the immediacy and horror of their experiences and feelings. This arresting book is the first to bring together and examine the full international array of images spawned by the Great War. Richard Cork shows how avant-garde artists from Europe, Russia, and the United States challenged the recruiting posters and other propagandist views of the struggle by producing art that reflected the degradation of the trenches. Many of their images are now counted among the landmarks of early twentieth-century art, but his pioneering and lavishly illustrated book also examines a wealth of far less familiar work. The conflict was anticipated before hostilities began by the visionary and apocalyptic work of painters such as Meidner and Kandinsky, Chagall, Nevinson, Grosz, Beckmann, Kirchner, and other artists were quick to define war's essential tragedy with objective, expressionist, or allegorical art that alluded to their own wartime experiences. The harshest images of war were made in the later stages or after the Armistice, when artists such as Dix had time to consider their participation in the war. Ironically, the post-war years also witnessed the redemptive work of Spencer and Brancusi who, after the Armistice, produced monumental affirmations of brotherhood, fortitude, and love". -First Search.
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Very Good Condition in Good jacket. 9780300057041. VG-/Good+ 1st edition very large, very heavy 1994 Yale hardback, unclipped DJ with many illustrations throughout. Corners a little pushed with almost 2cm tear to top rear corner of DJ, small tear to lower front of DJ spine and light edge-wear else VG bright and unmarked. Sent Airmail at no extra cost; Worldwide Shipping IMMEDIATE 1ST CLASS/AIRMAIL DISPATCH Quantity Available: 1. Shipped Weight: Under 1 kilogram. Category: Art & Design; ISBN: 0300057040. ISBN/EAN: 9780300057041. The photos provided are of our own book, further photos may be arranged upon request. Inventory No: 067529.
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Very Good. Light wear to covers. Address label of art professor on half title page. Text clean and unmarked. The binding is tight and square. Light wear to the dust jacket. Your satisfaction is guaranteed! dnr1.
