Art and Memorial?: The Forgotten History of Canada's War Art - Brossura

Brandon, Laura

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ISBN 10: 1552381781 ISBN 13: 9781552381786

Casa editrice: Univ of Calgary Pr, 2006

Riassunto

The Canadian War Museum possesses one of the finest twentieth-century official war art collections in the world. Until relatively recently, however, the collection has received limited public attention. In Art or Memorial?, author Laura Brandon explores some of the reasons why this may have been the case.

At various times throughout its history, the war art collection has receded from and re-emerged in the nation's collective consciousness. Nevertheless, as an invaluable part of the official record of war in Canada, it is profoundly significant. Brandon argues that the value of the collection lies less in its artistic merit and more in its role as a site of memory.

Art or Memorial? seeks to illuminate Canadian war art's sometimes-hidden presence in the nation's memory and to show, through both its presence and its absence, how it helped to shape, and will continue to influence, how we remember as a nation.

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Laura Brandon is the Curator of War Art at the Canadian War Museum in Ottawa.

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• Editore: Univ of Calgary Pr
• Data di pubblicazione: 2006
• ISBN 10: 1552381781
• ISBN 13: 9781552381786
• Rilegatura: Copertina flessibile
• Numero di pagine: 168