ID: 1553
War Paint: Art, War, State and Identity in Britain 1939-1945.
FOSS, Brian

Category: Art, Second World War

Place/Publisher/Date:
New Haven and London, Yale University Press. 2007.

Description: First edition; 4to; original boards and dust jacket. A groundbreaking examination of British war art during the Second World War. The author delves deeply into what art meant to Britain and its people at a time when the nation's very survival was under threat. Foss probes the impact of war art on the relations between art, state patronage, and public interest in art and he considers how this period of duress affected the trajectory of British Modernism. Fine in fine dust jacket.

ISBN:0300108907

Price £40.00