Portraits of Remembrance
Painting, Memory, and the First World War

Margaret Hutchison (Edited by), Steven Trout (Edited by), Martin Bayer (Contributions by), Philip D. Beidler (Contributions by), Laura Brandon (Contributions by), Heidi Cook (Contributions by), Peter Harrington (Contributions by), Marguerite Helmers (Contributions by), Margaret Hutchison (Contributions by), Mark Levitch (Contributions by), Caroline Lord (Contributions by), Andrew Nedd (Contributions by), Elizabeth Richards Rivenbark (Contributions by), Sandrine Smets (Contributions by), Gizem Tongo (Contributions by), Steven Trout (Contributions by), Jay Winter (Afterword by)

9780817320508, The University of Alabama Press

Hardback, published 28 April 2020

360 pages, 15 colour figures, 19 black & white figures
25.6 x 18.2 x 2.7 cm, 1.122 kg

Portraits of Remembrance is a welcome addition to scholarship on commemoration and memory of the First World War." - Pearl James, author of The New Death: American Modernism and World War I

Interdisciplinary collection of essays on fine art painting as it relates to the First World War and commemoration of the conflict.
 
Although photography and moving pictures achieved ubiquity during the First World War as technological means of recording history, the far more traditional medium of painting played a vital role in the visual culture of combatant nations. The public's appetite for the kind of up-close frontline action that snapshots and film footage could not yet provide resulted in a robust market for drawn or painted battle scenes.
 
Painting also figured significantly in the formation of collective war memory after the armistice. Paintings became sites of memory in two ways: first, many governments and communities invested in freestanding panoramas or cycloramas that depicted the war or featured murals as components of even larger commemorative projects, and second, certain paintings, whether created by official artists or simply by those moved to do so, emerged over time as visual touchstones in the public's understanding of the war.
 
Portraits of Remembrance: Painting, Memory, and the First World War examines the relationship between war painting and collective memory in Australia, Austria, Belgium, Canada, Croatia, France, Germany, Great Britain, New Zealand, Russia, Serbia, Turkey, and the United States. The paintings discussed vary tremendously, ranging from public murals and panoramas to works on a far more intimate scale, including modernist masterpieces and crowd-pleasing expressions of sentimentality or spiritualism. Contributors raise a host of topics in connection with the volume's overarching focus on memory, including national identity, constructions of gender, historical accuracy, issues of aesthetic taste, and connections between painting and literature, as well as other cultural forms.

• List of Illustrations
• Acknowledgments
• Introduction
• Painting, Memory, and the First World War
• Margaret Hutchison and Steven Trout
• Chapter 1. En Souvenir: Albert Herter'
  s Le DÉ
  part des Poilus, at Paris-Est
• Mark Levitch
• Chapter 2. Romaine Brooks'
  s La France CroisÉ
  e: Allegory, Androgyny, and Appropriation
• Elizabeth Richards Rivenbark 000
• Chapter 3. A “
  rush frÉ
  nÉ
  tique”
  : Representation, Memory, and Georges Scott'
  s La Brigade Marine AmÉ
  ricaine au Bois de Belleau
• Steven Trout
• Chapter 4. An Ambivalent Patriot: Namik Ismail, the First World War, and the Politics of Remembrance in Turkey
• Gizem Tongo
• Chapter 5. Albin Egger-Lienz'
  s Die Namenlosen 1914: Vienna Painters and the Great War
• Philip D. Beidler
• Chapter 6. Russia, Memory, and the Great War: Kuzma Petrov-Vodkin'
  s In the Line of Fire
• Andrew M. Nedd
• Chapter 7. The Canadians Opposite Lens: Augustus John'
  s Unfinished First World War Canadian Masterpiece
• Laura Brandon
• Chapter 8. Sacrifice, Grief, and National Memory in George Edmund Butler'
  s Butte de Polygon
• Caroline Lord
• Chapter 9. Gatekeeper of Memory: The Australian War Memorial and Charles Bryant'
  s HMAS Australia on the Way to Her Doom
• Margaret Hutchison
• Chapter 10. Fortunino Matania'
  s Goodbye, Old Man
• Marguerite Helmers
• Chapter 11. James Clark'
  s The Great Sacrifice
• Peter Harrington
• Chapter 12. Maksimilijan Vanka'
  s Our Mothers and the Croatian Memory of the First World War
• Heidi A. Cook
• Chapter 13. Der Krieg: Otto Dix'
  s War Triptych, Memory, and the Perception of the First World War
• Martin Bayer
• Chapter 14. From Propaganda to Remembrance: Alfred Bastien'
  s The Panorama of the Yser Battle
• Sandrine Smets
• Afterword
• Jay Winter
• Bibliography
• Contributors
• Index