London's Burning: Life, Death and Art in the Second World War - Hardcover

Stansky, Peter; Abrahams, William

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9780804723404: London's Burning: Life, Death and Art in the Second World War

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ISBN 10: 0804723400 ISBN 13: 9780804723404

Publisher: Stanford University Press, 1994

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During the First World War, the most important British works of art inspired by war were the poems and paintings of young artists whose lives were at risk in battle. During the Second World War, when the Blitz made civilians in London and elsewhere almost as vulnerable as those at the front, it could be argued that the greatest artistic achievements were by civilian artists. This book examines, from a historical and cultural perspective, the rich outpouring of art in Great Britain during the war years. It does this through a close study of the lives and wartime work of the sculptor Henry Moore, the documentary filmmaker Humphrey Jennings, and the composer Benjamin Britten.

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