Painting War A History of Australia's First World War Art Scheme Hutchison

Painting War\n\nA History of Australia's First World War Art Scheme\n\nExamines the official art scheme as a key commemorative practice of the First World War.\n\nMargaret Hutchison (Author)\n\n9781108471503, Cambridge University Press\n\nHardback, published 1 November 2018\n\n284 pages\n23.5 x 15.8 x 1.7 cm, 0.65 kg\n\nDuring the First World War the Australian Government established an official war art scheme, sending artists to the front lines to create a visual record of the Australian experience of the war. Around two thousand sketches and paintings were commissioned and acquired between 1916 and 1922. In Painting War, Margaret Hutchison examines the official art scheme as a key commemorative practice of the First World War and argues that the artworks had many makers beyond the artists. Government officials' selection of artists and subjects for the war paintings and their emphasis on the eyewitness value of the images over their aesthetic merit profoundly shaped the character o]