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Material Type: | Document, Internet resource |
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Document Type: | Internet Resource, Computer File |
All Authors / Contributors: |
Claudia Siebrecht |
ISBN: | 9780199656684 0199656681 9780191744563 0191744565 |
OCLC Number: | 869485306 |
Description: | 1 online resource : Illustrationen (black and white, and colour) |
Contents: | Introduction: War Experience, Visual Narrative, and Identity ; 1. Female Artists and Cultural Mobilisation for War ; 2. The Toll of the Long War ; 3. Art and Grief ; 4. Mourning Mothers ; 5. Resurrection, Rebirth, and the Limits of Sacrificial Ideologies ; Conclusion ; Appendix I: Statistical Overview ; Appendix II: Short Biographies ; Sources and Bibliography ; Index |
Responsibility: | Claudia Siebrecht |
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The author's judicious examination of this imagery, based not only on the art itself but also on letters, diaries and a broad array of archival material, together with other primary and secondary sources, is a welcome addition to the literature of wartime visual culture. * Marion F. Deshmukh, German History * fascinating and timely * History Today * a pioneering study ... esthetics of Loss identifies and underscores the vital importance of women's art to our greater understanding of the First World War, not least with regard to the manner and extent to which it established and asserted female agency, and how it developed a singular art that documented other experiences of war. * Ann Murray, IHR Reviews in History * Read more...

