The Great War: As Recorded through the Fine and Popular Arts - Softcover

Liss, Paul; Llewellyn, Sacha

9780956713995: The Great War: As Recorded through the Fine and Popular Arts

Softcover

ISBN 10: 0956713998 ISBN 13: 9780956713995

Publisher: Liss Llewellyn Fine Art, 2014

This catalogue presents a view of the First World War through a multifarious record of two and three dimensional works of art: paintings, drawings, prints, sculpture, reliefs, posters, postcards, photographs, silhouettes and ceramics appear in the following pages. The material has been grouped into 14 subsections under the general headings of Combat, The Home Front and The Aftermath. These groupings highlight the themes that inspired both the fine and popular arts, although some are looser in association than others, and none are mutually exclusive. The introduction gives a more general survey of the underlying factors that influenced or determined the visual responses to the First World War.

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About the Author:

Born in Stafford in 1965, Paul Liss is a fine art dealer and exhibition organiser. He joined Sotheby’s as a Bursary student prior to working for Hazlitt, Gooden & Fox. He has created numerous catalogues/exhibtions such as Stanley Lewis (Cecil Higgens, 2010), Alan Sorrell (John Soane Museum, 2013) Evelyn Dunbar (Pallant House, 2015), WWI and WWII (Morley Gallery London, 2014 and 2016). He founded Liss Llewellyn Fine Art in 1991.

Review:

“This attractive work is the catalog of an art exhibition at Morely College in London in the autumn of 2014, to commemorate the centennial of the start of the Great War. There are literally hundreds of images of drawings, photographs, toys, posters, soldier art, and many other objects related to war, most in full color and with an accompanying commentary... this is an interesting look at the intersection of war and art.” (The NYMAS Review)

“The book contains literally hundreds of images, some depicting works of great artistic merit, and others folk art or ephemera, but all of them help give the reader as sense of how contemporary people experienced and perceived the war... this is an interesting look at the intersection of war and art, and worth reading for anyone interested in understanding the contemporary experience of the war.” (StrategyPage)

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