WAR PICTURES by British Artists - RAF & ARMY (both books)
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Characteristics
| Book cover finish | Paperback with flaps |
| Condition | Used good |
| Number of pages | 64 + 63 |
| Published date | 1942 |
| Languages | English |
| Size | 12 x 19 x 1 cm (Each book : 12 x 19 x 0,5) |
| Editor | OXFORD UNIVERSITY PRESS |
Description
WAR PICTURES by British Artists
R.A.F (N°3) Introduction by H. E. Bates
ARMY (N°4) Introduction by Colin Coote
The titles in this series are
I. WAR AT SEA: Introduction by Admiral Sir Herbert H. W. Richmond
II. BLITZ: Introduction by J. B. Morton
III. R.A.F.: Introduction by H. E. Bates
IV. ARMY: Introduction by Colin Coote
The drawings and paintings reproduced in this book have been made by artists working under the official direction of the War Office on the recommendation of the Ministry of Information Artists' Advisory Committee. The artists contributing are:
EDWARD ARDIZZONE
EDWARD BAWDEN
MUIRHEAD BONE
DOROTHY COKE
W. CONOR
R. COXON
CHARLES CUNDALL
T. C. DUGDALE
R. G. EVES
BARNETT FREEDMAN
ANTHONY GROSS
ROBIN GUTHRIE
HENRY LAMB
HARRY MORLEY
C. MOZLEY
FELIKS TOPOLSKI
What did it look like? they will ask in 1981, and no amount of description or documentation will answer them. Nor will big, formal compositions like the battle pictures which hang in palaces; and even photographs, which tell us so much, will leave out the color and the peculiar feeling of events in these extraordinary years. Only the artist with his heightened powers of perception can recognize which elements in a scene can be pickled for posterity in the magical essence of style. And as new subjects begin to saturate his imagination, they create a new style, so that from the destruction of war something of lasting value emerges.