Portraits of Remembrance – Painting, Memory, and the First World War Hutchison

Portraits of RemembrancePainting, Memory, and the First World War\nAuthor(s): Margaret Hutchison, Steven Trout, Martin Bayer, Philip D. Beidler, Laura Brandon, Heidi Cook, Peter Harrington, Marguerite Helmers, Margaret Hutchison, Mark Levitch\nFormat: Hardback\nPublisher: The University of Alabama Press, United States\nImprint: The University of Alabama Press\nISBN-13: 9780817320508, 978-0817320508\nSynopsis\nInterdisciplinary collection of essays on fine art painting as it relates to the First World War and commemoration of the conflict.\n Although photography and moving pictures achieved ubiquity during the First World War as technological means of recording history, the far more traditional medium of painting played a vital role in the visual culture of combatant nations. The public's appetite for the kind of up-close frontline action that snapshots and film footage could not yet provide resulted in a robust market for drawn or painted battle scenes.\n Painting also figured signif.