War Art: Murals And Graffiti - Military Life, Power And Subversion

by Cocroft, Wayne D.; Devlin, Danielle; Schofield, John; Thomas, Roger J. C.

• ISBN13: 9781902771564
• ISBN10: 1902771567
• Format: Paperback
• Copyright: 2007-06-30
• Publisher: David Brown Book Co

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Table of Contents

'The art of war'	p. 1
Defining war art	p. 6
Materials and execution	p. 9
The artists	p. 14
History and development	p. 31
Exploring twentieth-century war art	p. 35
The First World War	p. 35
The Second World War	p. 39
The Cold War	p. 45
Project Warrior and the 1980s	p. 49
Significance	p. 71
Values and meaning	p. 71
Contemporary representations	p. 82
War art abroad	p. 85
European examples	p. 87
Strait Street, Valletta : Malta - a colonial legacy	p. 88
Eastern Europe	p. 89
Protest, sectarianism and conflict	p. 95
Northern Ireland murals	p. 95
Protest and the subversion of military structures	p. 98
The Berlin Wall	p. 107
Military buildings and aircraft	p. 111
Camouflage	p. 111
Nose art	p. 112
Subterranean art	p. 114
Spatial contexts	p. 123
The death star corridor	p. 128
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