Dead ground : war and peace : remembrance and recovery ; a cultural reading of memoryscapes from the Great War, 1914-1918 / Paul Gough.
Alternate Title(s):
War and peace : remembrance and recovery
Published / Created:
Bristol : Sansom and Company, a publishing imprint of Redcliffe Press Ltd., 2018.
Physical Description:
212 pages : illustrations (some color) ; 26 cm
Collection:
Reference Library
Copyright Status:
Copyright Not Evaluated
Classification:
Books
Notes:
Includes bibliographical references and index.
Contents:
Introduction: After the battle has moved on -- Mythical places: Artistic interpretations of the empty battlefield -- 'Ridiculous mad incongruity!': the legacy of Paul Nash as an artist of trauma, wilderness and recovery -- The living, the dead: the imagery of emptiness and re-appearance on the battlefields of the Western Front -- 'Turf wars': grass, greenery and the spatiality of commemoration -- 'Contested memories: contested site': Newfoundland and its unique heritage on the Western Front -- Commemoration of war and peace: the anxiety of erasure -- Peace in ruins: guerrilla responses and radical gardening.
Subject Terms:
World War (1914–1918) | World War, 1914–1918 -- Art and the war. | Art, Modern -- 20th century. | Art and Design. | Art, Modern.