Art and the Second World War / Monica Bohm-Duchen
2013, 1st edition. Princeton, New Jersey : Princeton University Press. Fine cloth copy in an equally fine dust-wrapper. Particularly well-preserved overall; tight, bright, clean and especially sharp-cornered. Item #391661
ISBN: 9780691145617
Physical description; 288 pp.: color illustrations ; 27 cm. Contents; Civil War in Spain 1936-9: 'the first battle of World War II' -- Art in the democracies: Great Britain -- Art in the democracies: the Commonwealth -- Art in the democracies: the USA -- 'France, once the haven of exiles': victim or collaborator? -- Art under the dictators: Russia's great patriotic war -- 'Imperfect totalitarianism': art and war in fascist Italy -- Art under the dictators: Nazi war art reassessed -- Art of the Holocaust: creativity in extremis -- Bitter victory: China's war of resistance against Japan, 1937-45 -- Japan's holy war, 1931-45 -- Endgame: Hiroshima and Nagasaki -- Notes -- Chronology of key events. Subjects; World War (1939-1945). Art and the war. Propaganda.
Price: €28.00