Product Description: Offering a glimpse into the richness and diversity of Canada's post-Second World War military art, A Brush with War features 30 extraordinary paintings from the Canadian War Museum and other collections. An introduction and four historic overviews covering the period 1946-2008 provide thoughtful contexts for detailed descriptions of historic paintings by Canadian artists including Alex Colville, A...read more

Product Description: The iconography of war and disaster have shaped the first years of the twenty-first century, both in the United States and throughout the world. On the Margins brings together a culturally diverse group of international artists whose work engages the platitudes associated with troubling themes, while addressing contemporary social and political conditions through a wide spectrum of styles and media...read more

'A catalog produced by the Museum of Biblical Art to accompany 'This anguished world of shadows: Georges Rouault's Miserere et guerre' (March 30-May 28, 2006). Includes three scholarly essays and an extensive bibliography, as well as reproductions of all58 prints from the series, two additional prints, and three paintings, accompanied by biblical quotations'--Provided by publisher.

Product Description: Catalogo della mostra allestita a Firenze, Museo Marino Marini, p.zza San Pancrazio (3 dicembre 2005 - 25 marzo 2006) Fuori dalla retorica che largomento potrebbe sollecitare a scapito di forme e contenuti scaturiti invece da un evento che fu di lancinante portata storica, ma anche fecondo nel generare pensieri e azioni di grande coinvolgimento estetico ed emotivo questa mostra attraversa gli anni della Grande Guerra seguendo le vicende degli artisti in essa coinvolti e delle loro opere, segnate dal dolore e dalla speranza che una tragica dialettica poneva alternatamente allorigine dellatto creativo (dalla presentazione di Carlo Sisi)...read more

Featuring more than eight hundred new reviews and numerous festival showcase reviews, this film lover's guide to the movies presents sixteen thousand reviews, each containing major technical credits, running time, color code, copyright year, and cast lists. Original.

Product Description: Galvanized by the political events of the Vietnam War, Nancy Spero dedicated herself for five years to creating a group of gouache paintings on paper, titled The War Series. In these works, Spero not only expressed her rage at the violence and oppression of the war, but also introduced many of the images and themes that would continue to find their place in her work, and anticipated the post-modern aesthetic of fracture, dissonance, and collage...read more

Product Description: This work reproduces dozens of powerful masterpieces depicting the brutality and devastation of war. The two artists represented are Jacques Callot (Miseries of War), and Francisco Goya (Disasters of War). Introductory essays cover the contexts in which the artists worked.