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Author | : Stephen M. Norris |
Publisher | : |
Total Pages | : 308 |
Release | : 2006 |
Genre | : Antiques & Collectibles |
ISBN | : |
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The lubok--a broadside or poster--played an important role in Russia's cultural history. Evolving as a medium for communication with a largely illiterate population, the popular prints were adapted to express political propaganda. Stephen Norris examines the use of such prints to stir patriotic fervor during times of war, from Napoleon's failed attempt at conquering Russia to Hitler's invasion. Norris shows how visual images of patriotism and expressions of the Russian spirit changed over time, yet remained similar. The lubok produced during Russia's modern wars consistently featured the same key elements: the Russian peasant, the Cossack, and a representation of "the Russian spirit." When Russia was victorious, occasionally the tsar figured into the imagery; but by the beginning of the 20th century, ethnic identity had replaced dynastic representations of Russian nationhood. After the Revolutions of 1917, Bolshevik and Soviet leaders appropriated the traditional elements of the wartime lubok to promote their vision of the new socialist state. The political power of lubok imagery did not end with the Bolsheviks' adaptations. During World War II, political posters similar to those of the tsarist era reemerged to express and to reinforce Russia's culture of patriotism and strength. Amply illustrated, A War of Images is the first comprehensive study of how popular prints helped to construct national identity in Russia over a period of more than a century. Readers interested in Russian art, history, and culture will find its insights intriguing.
Author | : Anne Tucker |
Publisher | : Museum of Fine Arts (Houston) |
Total Pages | : 0 |
Release | : 2012 |
Genre | : Photography, Artistic |
ISBN | : 9780300177381 |
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Contains primary source material.
Author | : W. J. T. Mitchell |
Publisher | : University of Chicago Press |
Total Pages | : 239 |
Release | : 2011 |
Genre | : Art |
ISBN | : 0226532607 |
Download Cloning Terror Book in PDF, ePub and Kindle
The phrase 'War on Terror' has quietly been retired from official usage, but it persists in the American psyche, and our understanding of it is hardly complete. Exploring the role of verbal and visual images in the War on Terror, the author finds a conflict whose shaky metaphoric and imaginary conception has created its own reality.
Author | : David Shields |
Publisher | : Simon and Schuster |
Total Pages | : 112 |
Release | : 2019-06-11 |
Genre | : History |
ISBN | : 1576879496 |
Download War is Beautiful - The New York Times Pictorial Guide to the Glamour of Armed Conflict Book in PDF, ePub and Kindle
Bestselling author David Shields analyzed over a decade's worth of front-page war photographs fromTheNew York Timesand came to a shocking conclusion: the photo-editing process ofthe "paper of record,"by way of pretty, heroic, and lavishly aesthetic image selection, pullsthe woolover the eyes of its readers; Shields forces us to face not only the the media's complicity in dubious and catastrophic military campaigns but our own as well.This powerful media mouthpiece, the mightyTimes, far from being a check on governmental power, is in reality a massive amplifier for its dark forces by virtue of the way it aestheticizeswarfare. Anyone baffled by the willful American involvement in Iraq and Afghanistan can't help but see in this book how eagerly and invariably theTimesled the way in making the case for these wars through the manipulation of its visuals. Shields forces the reader to weigh the consequences of our own passivity in the face of these images' opiatic numbing. The photographs gathered inWar Is Beautiful, often beautiful and always artful, are filters of reality rather than the documentary journalism they purport to be.
Author | : Sharon Macdonald |
Publisher | : Univ of Wisconsin Press |
Total Pages | : 268 |
Release | : 1988 |
Genre | : History |
ISBN | : 9780299117641 |
Download Images of Women in Peace and War Book in PDF, ePub and Kindle
As warriors, freedom fighters and victims, as mothers, wives and prostitutes, and as creators and members of peace movements, women are inevitably caught up in the net of war. Yet women's participation in warfare and peace campaigns has often been underestimated or ignored. Images of Women in Peace and War explores women's relationships to war, peace, and revolution, from the Amazons, Inka and Boadicea, to women soldiers in South Africa, Mau Mau freedom fighters and the protestors at Greenham Common. The contributors consider not only the reality of women's participation but also look at how their actions have been perceived and represented across cultures and through history. They examine how sexual imagery is constructed, how it is used to delineate women's relation to warfare and how these images have sometimes been subverted in order to challenge the status quo. The book raises important questions about whether women have a special prerogative to promote peace and considers whether the experience of motherhood leads to a distinctive women's position on war. The authors find that their analyses lead them to deal with arguments on the basic nature of the sexes and to reevaluate our concepts of "peace," "war," and "gender."
Author | : Robert Capa |
Publisher | : |
Total Pages | : 180 |
Release | : 1964 |
Genre | : Military history |
ISBN | : |
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Photo-journalistic essays on the atmosphere and attitudes of warfare, from the Spanish Civil War to the author's last days in the jungles of Vietnam.
Author | : Marja Vuorinen |
Publisher | : Cambridge Scholars Publishing |
Total Pages | : 170 |
Release | : 2012-01-17 |
Genre | : Political Science |
ISBN | : 1443837024 |
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In the post 9/11 world, the emotionally charged concepts of identity and ideology, enmity and political violence have once again become household words. Contrary to the serene assumptions of the early 1990s, history did not end. Civilisations are busy clashing against one another, and the self-proclaimed pacified humanity is once again showing its barbaric roots. Religion mixes with politics to produce governments that abuse even their own citizens, and victorious insurgents too often fail to carry out the promised reforms. Terrorists blow up unsuspecting pedestrians, and allegedly democratic nations threaten to bomb allegedly less democratic ones back to the Stone Age. Mass demonstrations materialise like flash mobs out of nowhere, prepared to hold their ground until the bitter end. Where does all this passionate intensity come from? To better understand how the ideological enmity of today is moulded, spread and managed, this book investigates the propaganda operations of the past. Its topics range from the ruthless portrayal of female enemy soldiers in an early-20th-century civil war setting to the multiple enemy images cherished by Adolf Hitler, and onwards, to the WWII Soviet Russians as a subtype of a more ancient notion of the Eastern Hordes. Of more recent events, the book covers the Rwandan genocide of 1994 and the still ongoing Israel-Palestine conflict. The closing chapter on cyber warfare introduces the reader to the invisible enemies of the future.
Author | : Julian Stallabrass |
Publisher | : |
Total Pages | : 0 |
Release | : 2013 |
Genre | : Art |
ISBN | : 9781903796498 |
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This book is a visual, theoretical and historical resource about the photography of war, and how images are used as instruments of war. It comprises essays and interviews by prominent theorists, artists and photographers and covers the urgent issues of the depiction of war, the use of images of war by the media and the circulation of unofficial images and the impact of the digital mediascape.
Author | : Robert Knox Sneden |
Publisher | : |
Total Pages | : 290 |
Release | : 2001 |
Genre | : Historic buildings |
ISBN | : 9781597640541 |
Download Images from the Storm Book in PDF, ePub and Kindle
A retrospective study of the work of Robert Knox Sneden continues with this publication of hundreds more images from the Union cartographer's collection of Civil War sketches, engravings, and maps.
Author | : Makeda Best |
Publisher | : Harvard Art Museums |
Total Pages | : 224 |
Release | : 2021-09-28 |
Genre | : History |
ISBN | : 9780300260083 |
Download Devour the Land Book in PDF, ePub and Kindle
Tracing the impacts of militarism on the American landscape, through the lens of art, environmental studies, and politics Devour the Land considers how contemporary photographers have responded to the US military's impact on the domestic environment since the 1970s, a dynamic period for environmental activism as well as for photography. This catalogue presents a lively range of voices at the intersection of art, environmentalism, militarism, photography, and politics. Alongside interviews with prominent contemporary artists working in the landscape photography tradition, the images speak to photographers' varied motivations, personal experiences, and artistic approaches. The result is a surprising picture of the ways violence and warfare surround us. Although most modern combat has taken place abroad, the US domestic landscape bears the footprint of armed conflict--much of the environmental damage we live with today was caused by our own military and the expansive network of industries supporting its work. Designed to evoke a field book and to nod toward ephemera produced by earlier artists and activists, the catalogue features works by dozens of photographers, including Ansel Adams, Robert Adams, Dorothy Marder, Alex Webb, Terry Evans, and many more.