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14 de mar. de 2022 · Art in a Time of War. The images produced by artists historicize war’s sick seductiveness while concentrating the mind on past, present, and, ineluctably, future calamity. By Peter...
The Nazi regime and its allies often approached art as a tool of propaganda, but artists also expressed their own responses to war, occupation, and persecution through their artwork. These sources reveal some of the individual motivations and choices that shaped visual culture in Europe during World War II.
18 de oct. de 2023 · The Gallery in wartime. Adolf Hitler’s expansionist aims for Nazi Germany set Europe on an inevitable road to war. In late August 1939, the National Gallery found itself at the centre of a city expecting widespread bombing.
As well as providing fascinating documentation of war time activities and events, much of the work produced by war artists is also interesting and important as art. First World War During the First World War, two main streams of activity produced official war art.
28 de jul. de 2022 · The Role of Art in a Time of War. Painting will not stop missiles. Music will not end suffering. But culture is not powerless — and a visit to Ukraine reaffirmed what it can do at its best....
The reason you need art in wartime, Jefferson wrote, is because “history cannot exist without the discipline of imagination.” Through art we establish similarities between past and future, near and far, abstract and concrete, that cast received certainties into doubt.
16 de oct. de 2017 · Despite initially supporting the war effort by creating works for periodicals such as Kriegszeit (War Time)—the bellicose art journal founded by the publisher and gallery owner Paul Cassirer in the summer of 1914—by 1916 artists such as Ernst Barlach and Käthe Kollwitz had begun making elegiac works about the devastation ...
