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During the First and Second World Wars some of Canada's finest artists were commissioned to capture history in the making. This superb book weaves 110 full-colour, seldom-seen images, works produced on the battlefield, with archival photographs and an evocative text.
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hardcover. Condition: Very Good. MOTHERMACS SHIPS FROM TORONTO, ONTARIO WITH CANADA POST AND NIAGARA FALLS NEW YORK VIA USPS. WE BRING OVER TEN YEARS OF VALUE, QUALITY AND PROMPT SERVICE TO THE INTERNET. WE SHIP INTERNATIONALLY. BUQUES MOTHERMACS de Toronto, Ontario y aporta m?s de diez a?os de servicio valor, calidad y prontitud a la INTERNET ENVIAMOS POR VIA AEREA DE EE.UU., EUROPA. NAVIRES Mothermacs de Toronto, Ontario et apporte plus de dix ans de service VALEUR, DE QUALIT? ET RAPIDES DE L'INTERNET Nous exp?dions via AVION POUR NOUS. EXCERPT; I often wonder what it must have been like to see the first major exhibition ofthe Canadian War Memorials Fund (CWMF) in January 1919. The aesthetic quality and historical veracity of the works have been hotly debated by historians and critics over the years, but the average gallerygoer in 1919 would surely have been most moved by the sheer visual impact of the paintings and drawings: their vivid colours, narrative power, symbolic content, and, in some cases, their immense size. Regrettably, the collection has rarely regained the profile it enjoyed in the years immediately after the Armistice of1918; not even the unveiling ofthe Second World War collection in September 1946 created the same impact. Since the 1950s the collection has been exhibited only infrequently (although individual works could often be seen on posters or calendars), and the few monographs that have been published fail to capture its grandeur. Heather Robertson's A Terrible Beauty (1977), though sumptuously illustrated, was light on the history, and Maria Tippett's excellent Art at the Service ofWar (1984) covered only the First World War. Canvas ofWar, then, is the first book to do justice to one of the country's finest yet least-known art collections. Like the gallery-goers of 1919, readers will be immediately struck by the exceptional reproductions of some of the gems from the collection. They will likely concede that the authors' greatest challenge must have been choosing no works of art from the nearly 13,000 that were produced at the government's behest during the world wars. The authors succeed in showing offthe collection to its very best advantage, without falling back on the same few works that are reproduced again and again. Indeed, their selection demonstrates the great breadth of the collection and puts to rest the fallacy that it is only about men standing in trenches or servicing aircraft. Oliver and Brandon have brought out a number of themes in Canadian military and cultural history, perhaps the most striking ofwhich is the growing interest in war as a technological exercise. Artists ofthe First World War were preoccupied with either the human element or the natural landscape, and pushed the new machines of war to the background . Maurice Cullen's Huy on the Meuse, on the Road to the Rhine is a traditional city view, reminiscent ofhis paintings of Quebec City, while Manly MacDonald's Land Girls Hoeing depicts a verdant and timeless agricultural scene. Technology was not entirely absent from the works of 600 The Canadian Historical Review the CWMF (if there is one quibble with the selection of artists, it is the omission ofJohn Turnbull, the futurist painter ofaviation subjects), but the painters and the viewing public were generally happier with subjects that confirmed their preconceptions ofconflict. The next generation ofwar artists took a different view. In their work, machinery often dominated the scene, dwarfing the humans as if to verify that the age of war by technology had dawned. People did not disappear entirely from the paintings: T.R. MacDonald's Night Travellers, for example, depicts weary servicepeople in a railway carriage, while Edwin Holgate's The Dispersal Hut, contrary to the caption provided in the book, captures a group offighter pilots at rest while awaiting the call to operations. Nevertheless, in the paintings from the Second World War, people were increasingly framed or overshadowed by huge aircraft, armoured vehicles, or surrealistic ironwork. But Canvas ofWar is much more than just a book ofpictures. Using the recollections of soldiers, sailors, aviators, and civilians drawn from the Canadian War Museum's fine archival collection, it offers a clear and cogent account of Canada's two world wars. By the same token, the descriptions ofthe art programs are enlivened by wonderful comments from the artists themselves (William Nicholson, as he struggled with a portrait ofthe Canadian headquarters staff in 1918, grumbled that 'my Canadians make slow progress, it's a Hell ofa job'). This comment is not at. Seller Inventory # 0003114
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Canvas of War: Painting the Canadian Experience - 1914 to 1945
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