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Brushes and Bayonets: Cartoons, sketches and paintings of World War I

Door Lucinda Gosling

Categorie
WO I
Boeknummer
#298058
Titel
Brushes and Bayonets: Cartoons, sketches and paintings of World War I
Auteur
Gosling, Lucinda
Boektype
Gebonden hardcover
Uitgeverij
Osprey Publishing
Jaar van uitgave
2008
ISBN10
1846030951
ISBN13
9781846030956
Taal
Engels
Beschrijving
Orignal gilt lettered half cloth, oblong, ca. 30.5x25cm, richy illustrated in colour and b/w.
Samenvatting
It is often said that a picture is worth a thousand words, but, during World War I, newspaper illustrations were worth even more, not only conveying the news to anxious families at home and soldiers in battle, but also entertaining and lifting the spirits of a nation at war.

Featuring work by some of the most well-known illustrators of the period fromW. Heath Robinson to Bruce Bairnsfather, this thematic collection of 250 WorldWar I magazine illustrations is published in association with The Illustrated London News (the British Harper's).

The illustrations included range from light-hearted strip cartoons and line drawings, to poignant sketches and dark
and hard-hitting political satire. The images not only depict events as they happened, but reveal all the moods of a nation at war.
... (Lees verder)Many are published here for the first time in 90 years, creating a unique, bittersweet portrayal of the Great War and a fascinating and very human, historical and artistic reference source.
Pagina's
200
Conditie
Goed — Cover partly slightly discoloured; small stains spine.
Prijs
€ 10,00

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