Portraits of Remembrance: Painting, Memory, and the First World War

Portraits of Remembrance: Painting, Memory, and the First World WarDescription edited by Margaret Hutchinson & Steven Trout Hardcover 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 publics appetite for the kind of up close frontline action that snapshots and film footage could not yet provide resulted in a robust market for

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with the centennial of the war only magnifying this paradox

you will never forget them

The book covers the main reasons why the major powers entered the conflict

a thought-provoking chronicle of the twentieth century and a portrait of a man who came from nothing and by his own courage

joined Eastern Airlines in 1934

It’s also the story of the lives of loved ones at home – how they coped with rationing and how women changed their place in society

John Alston quietly wonders what it is about his face that makes other people think he is someone else

Gordon Fox Professor of American Institutions at the University of Wisconsin

a battle conducted along a Western Front of over 400 miles

vegetable gardens and chickens in every empty lot

It is also a stirring account of Canadian identity and memory