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Book Brushes with War

    Book Details:
  • Author : Joel Parkinson
  • Publisher :
  • Release : 2014
  • ISBN : 9780764346347
  • Pages : 0 pages

Download or read book Brushes with War written by Joel Parkinson and published by . This book was released on 2014 with total page 0 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: Brushes With War is a unique history of World War I in broad brush strokes. Over 230 original paintings, drawings, sculpture, and trench art by the combatants of World War I cover all aspects of the war and most major battles from Mons (1914) to the Meuse-Argonne (1918). The artists were American, Austrian, Australian, Belgian, British, Canadian, French, German, and Russian soldiers. These were not professional artists, but amateurs depicting their own daily struggles as they saw them. Just as snapshot photos are often more realistic than posed professional portraits, these works of art are more genuine impressions of the war than the official art and illustrations of the time.

Book A Brush with War

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  • Author : Laura Brandon
  • Publisher : Canadian Museum of History
  • Release : 2009
  • ISBN :
  • Pages : 84 pages

Download or read book A Brush with War written by Laura Brandon and published by Canadian Museum of History. This book was released on 2009 with total page 84 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: 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. Y. Jackson, and Pegi Nicol MacLeod and contemporary military masterpieces by Gertrude Kearns, William MacDonnell, Allan Harding MacKay, and Scott Waters. The unique artworks featured in these pages bear witness not only to Canadian military history, but also to a longstanding and ongoing commitment to create a visual record of that history as it happens. The book shows how Canada's two post-Second World War official art programs have allowed artists to expand the boundaries of military art in diverse and important directions, including highly personal responses to the complex realities of Canada's military operations abroad.

Book Robert Bailey

Download or read book Robert Bailey written by Robert Bailey and published by . This book was released on 2006 with total page 126 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt:

Book A Wearside Lad in World War II

Download or read book A Wearside Lad in World War II written by Len Gibson and published by . This book was released on 2005 with total page 109 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt:

Book The Art of God of War

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  • Author : Sony Interactive Entertainment
  • Publisher : Dark Horse Comics
  • Release : 2018-04-24
  • ISBN : 150670574X
  • Pages : 228 pages

Download or read book The Art of God of War written by Sony Interactive Entertainment and published by Dark Horse Comics. This book was released on 2018-04-24 with total page 228 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: It is a new beginning for Kratos. Living as a man, outside the shadow of the gods, he seeks solitude in the unfamiliar lands of Norse mythology. With new purpose and his son at his side, Kratos must fight for survival as powerful forces threaten to disrupt the new life he has created. The volume is an intimate chronicle of the years-long odyssey to bring Kratos and Atreus's beautiful and brutal world to life. Step into Midgard and explore beyond, as Dark Horse Books and Santa Monica Studio proudly present the quintessential companion to the enormously anticipated God of War. This is a document unlike any other that sets readers on an exhaustive behind-the-scenes journey to witness the creation of an epic of tremendous scale.

Book James Milton Sessions

Download or read book James Milton Sessions written by Howard B. Capponi and published by . This book was released on 2007 with total page 66 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: James M. Sessions "WWII Brush Reporter"This unique book illustrated by James Sessions chronicles Major WWII battles combined with period historic events.A tribute to all the fighting forces of America containing 28 of his finest wartime paintings, plus a comprehensive biography detailing his extraordinary career in American art. *Tarawa* Guam* Pearl Harbor* Monte Casino*

Book A Defiant Brush

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  • Author : Yeewan Koon
  • Publisher :
  • Release : 2014-07-31
  • ISBN :
  • Pages : 254 pages

Download or read book A Defiant Brush written by Yeewan Koon and published by . This book was released on 2014-07-31 with total page 254 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: This book takes a fresh look at this underappreciated artist in the context of a nascent Chinese modernism.

Book A Brush With Napolean

Download or read book A Brush With Napolean written by Laban Carrick Hill and published by Watson-Guptill Publications. This book was released on 2007-01-09 with total page 190 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: Scarred by his battlefield experiences in Napoleon's army, Jean, a young soldier, finds salvation in his pursuit of art in the studio of the most renowned painter of late eighteenth-early nineteenth-century France, Jacques-Louis David. Includes a brief b

Book The Journal of James A  Brush

Download or read book The Journal of James A Brush written by James A. Brush and published by University of New Mexico Press. This book was released on 2020 with total page 280 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: Editors Karen Racine and Graham Lloyd provide extensive insight into the Mina expedition during the revolution of Mexican independence as captured in the journal of James A. Brush. General Xavier Mina believed that the best way to overthrow tyranny in Spain was to fight for the independence of the American colonies. A Scottish officer who fought with the British army against Napoleon, Brush joined Mina in 1815 and set sail to Mexico thereafter. Available in English for the first time, this primary document detailing the experiences of the expedition provides a firsthand account of the personalities, the events, and the social world as it was, as well as descriptions of some of the major figures of Mexico's independence era. Racine and Lloyd contextualize Brush's journal with informative notes, annotations, and appendices that include letters, song lyrics, and decrees, giving readers a broader context for the events described. The result is a fascinating look into a significant episode of Mexico's War for Independence.

Book A Brush Full of Colour

Download or read book A Brush Full of Colour written by Margriet Ruurs and published by Pajama Press Inc.. This book was released on 2014-09-29 with total page 42 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: Describes the life and work of Ted Harrison, who is best known for his colorful paintings depicting everyday life in the Yukon.

Book Hearings

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  • Author : United States. Congress. House
  • Publisher :
  • Release : 1956
  • ISBN :
  • Pages : 2504 pages

Download or read book Hearings written by United States. Congress. House and published by . This book was released on 1956 with total page 2504 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt:

Book Don Troiani s Civil War

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  • Author : Don Troiani
  • Publisher : Stackpole Books
  • Release : 1999
  • ISBN : 0811727157
  • Pages : 223 pages

Download or read book Don Troiani s Civil War written by Don Troiani and published by Stackpole Books. This book was released on 1999 with total page 223 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: Featuring renowned artist-historian Don Troiani's careful research, painstaking attention to detail, and dramatic style.

Book The Great War in Portraits

Download or read book The Great War in Portraits written by Paul Moorhouse and published by . This book was released on 2014 with total page 0 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: In viewing the Great War through the portraits of those involved, Paul Moorhouse looks at the bitter-sweet nature of a conflict in which valour and selfless endeavour were qualified by disaster and suffering, and examines the notion of identity - how various individuals associated with the war were represented and perceived. The narrative is structured chronologically, with thematic sections devoted to conflicting pairs - 'Royalty and the Assassin', 'Leaders and Followers', 'The Valiant and the Damned' - which reveal the radical differences between those caught up in the conflict in terms of their respective roles, aspirations, experiences, and, ultimately, their destinies. 'Leaders and Followers', for example, examines the dichotomy between the representation of senior military leaders such as Blumer, Foch, Haig and Hindenburg, who were responsible for directing the war, and that of the ordinary soldiers charged with executing it. While portraits of the generals emphasise their personal profile, gallantry and the trappings of military power, paintings of the rank and file are characterised by a tendency to anonymity, in which individual identity was subsumed with the impression of 'types'. Claude Rogers's imposing painting Gassed, for instance, presented the individual soldier as a kind of cipher, a depersonalised embodiment of common, degraded experience. Illustrated throughout with images both well known and less familiar, the book concludes with a section entitled 'Tradition and the Avant-Garde', which focuses on the struggle artists faced in finding an appropriate language in which to depict those who had experienced the unimaginable horror at the front: either by resorting to the steadying hand of tradition or a radical visual language of expressive distortion.

Book Brush Men and Vigilantes

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  • Author : David Pickering
  • Publisher : Texas A&M University Press
  • Release : 2000
  • ISBN : 9781585443956
  • Pages : 262 pages

Download or read book Brush Men and Vigilantes written by David Pickering and published by Texas A&M University Press. This book was released on 2000 with total page 262 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: As Charles Frazier's novel Cold Mountain dramatized, dissenters from the Confederacy lived in mortal danger across the South. In scattered pockets from the Carolinas to the frontier in Texas, some men clung to a belief in the Union or an unwillingness to preserve the slaveholding Confederacy, and they died at the hands of their own neighbors. Brush Men and Vigilantes tells the story of how dissent, fear, and economics developed into mob violence in a corner of Texas--the Sulphur Forks river valley northeast of Dallas. Authors David Pickering and Judy Falls have combed through court records, newspapers, letters, and other primary sources and collected extended-family lore to relate the details of how vigilantes captured and killed more than a dozen men. The authors' story begins before the Civil War, as they describe the particular social and economic conditions that gave rise to tension and violence during the war. Unlike most other parts of Texas, the Sulphur Forks river valley had a significant population of Upper Southerners, some of whom spoke out against secession, objected to enlisting in the Confederate army, or associated with "Union men." For some of them, safety meant disappearing into the tangled brush thickets of the region. Routed from the thicket or gone to ground there, dissenters faced death. Betrayed by links to a well-known Union guerrilla from the Sulphur Forks area, more men of the area were captured, tried in mock courts, and hanged. Other men met their death by sniper fire or private execution, as in the case of brush man Frank Chamblee, who for years eluded his enemies by clever tricks but was finally gunned down after the war, reportedly by one of the area's most prominent men. Anyone with an interest in the new history of the Civil War or Texas should find much to digest in this compelling book, whose authors Richard B. McCaslin congratulates for taking their place "in the ranks of Texas' literary reconstructionists."

Book Art from the First World War

Download or read book Art from the First World War written by and published by Imperial War Museums. This book was released on 2014 with total page 0 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: Showcasing IWM's extensive collection, this book includes works from the major artists of the time such as John and Paul Nash, Orpen, Spencer and Singer Sargent, as well less familiar artists, offering an insight into the huge range and power of wartime art during the First World War.

Book The Paint Guide for Figures of World War Two

Download or read book The Paint Guide for Figures of World War Two written by Joaquin Garcia Gasquez and published by . This book was released on 2013-11-14 with total page 0 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: A beautifully assembled kit is always enhanced by the presence of a well-painted figurine. This statement has become a profession of faith for the author of this book, Joaquin Garcia Guazquez, one of the world's armoured modelling elite; here he has chosen to give us the benefit of his experience painting figurines from WWII, the supreme period for military modelling. Very instructively, using a lot of photographs, and step by step he explains how to paint a successful figurine, from the choice of tools, from the work area to the preparation of the figurine, painting the flesh parts, the uniforms and the accessories, etc. This is required reading, intended to guide you and inspire you when painting figurines to go with your next armoured vehicle or action-packed scene. This Book is in English SELLING POINTS: * This book is intended to guide you and inspire you when painting figurines to go with your next armoured vehicle or action-packed scene. Illustrated throughout

Book Canada s Part in the Great War

Download or read book Canada s Part in the Great War written by Canada. Department of Public Information and published by Department of Public Information. This book was released on 1919 with total page 72 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: