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Grand Illusions: American Art and the First World War Hardcover – Illustrated, May 30 2016
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David M. Lubin
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A vivid, engaging account of the famous and forgotten artists and artworks that sought to make sense of America's first total war. Despite the prevailing view of World War I's general lack of impact on American Art, David Lubin takes readers on a journey through the major historical events during and immediately after the war to discover the often missed vast and pervasive influence of the Great War on American visual culture. Grand Illusions presents a highly original examination of the era's artworks that range from patriotic idealism to profound disillusionment. In several stylishly written chapters, Lubin assesses the war's impact on two dozen painters, designers, photographers, and film makers from 1914 to 1933. In addition to profiles of famous and forgotten artists from D.W. Griffith and John Singer Sargent to neglected soldier-painter Claggett Wilson and the African American outsider artist Horace Pippin, the book features illustrations from epoch-defining films, sculptures, photographs and paintings. Armed with rich cultural-historical details and an interdisciplinary narrative approach, David Lubin creatively upends traditional understandings of the Great War's effects on the visual arts in America.
- Print length304 pages
- LanguageEnglish
- PublisherOxford University Press
- Publication dateMay 30 2016
- Dimensions25.65 x 2.54 x 18.54 cm
- ISBN-100190218614
- ISBN-13978-0190218614
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"What Paul Fussell's The Great War and Modern Memory did for literature, David Lubin's Grand Illusions does for the painting, photography, sculpture, and architecture inspired by the First World War. Astutely guiding his readers through the treacherous landscape where stubborn romantic myths befog the ghastly realities of modern warfare, Lubin powerfully demonstrates the Great War's lasting legacy in all the visual arts." --David M. Kennedy, author of Over Here: The First World War and American Society "A fascinating, richly illustrated examination of how this supposedly 'forgotten' war figured in the American imagination." --David Reynolds, author of The Long Shadow: The Legacies of the Great War in the Twentieth Century
About the Author
David M. Lubin is the Charlotte C. Weber Professor of Art at Wake Forest University. A former critic for Rolling Stone, he is the author of several books including Picturing a Nation: Art and Social Change in Nineteenth-Century America (Yale UP, 1996), and Shooting Kennedy: JFK and the Culture of Images (University of California Press, 2003)
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- Publisher : Oxford University Press; Illustrated edition (May 30 2016)
- Language : English
- Hardcover : 304 pages
- ISBN-10 : 0190218614
- ISBN-13 : 978-0190218614
- Item weight : 996 g
- Dimensions : 25.65 x 2.54 x 18.54 cm
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