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Description
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
2 tomes :
- WAR PICTURES BY BRITISH ARTISTS - R.A.F (N°3) Introduction by H. E. Bates
- WAR PICTURES BY BRITISH ARTISTS - ARMY (N°4) Introduction by Colin Coote
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 colour and the peculiar feeling of events in these extraordinary years. Only the artist with his heightened powers of perception can recognise 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.
The drawings and painting reproduced in this book have been made by artists working under the official direction of the Air Ministry on the recommendation of the Ministry of Information Artists' Advisory Committee.
The artists contributing in the WAR PICTURES BY BRITISH ARTISTS - R.A.F :
- ROBERT AUSTIN
- ROBIN DARWIN
- T. C. DUGDALE
- RICHARD EURICH
- KEITH HENDERSON
- ERIC KENNINGTON LAURA KNIGHT
- J. MANSBRIDGE
- RAYMOND MCGRATH
- PAUL NASH
- ROY NOCKOLDS
- CUTHBERT ORDE
- SIR W. ROTHENSTEIN
- GRAHAM SUTHERLAND
The artists contributing in the WAR PICTURES BY BRITISH ARTISTS - ARMY :
- EDWARD ARDIZZONE
- EDWARD BAWDEN
- MUIRHEAD BONE
- DOROTHY COKE
- R. G. EVES
- BARNETT FREEDMAN
- ANTHONY GROSS
- ROBIN GUTHRIE
- W. CONOR
- R. COXON
- CHARLES CUNDALL
- T. C. DUGDALE
- HENRY LAMB
- HARRY MORLEY
- C. MOZLEY
- FELIKS TOPOLSKI
