Art at the Service of War: Canada, Art, and the Great War

by Maria Tippett

Book Overview

The Canadian War Memorials Exhibition opened in the galleries of the Royal Academy in Burlington House in January 1919. Featuring four hundred paintings and sculptures depicting the Canadian Expeditionary Force in the First World War, the exhibition became the gala event of the London art season.

Art at the Service of War is the story of how artists as diverse as modernist Paul Nash, the revolutionary Vorticist Wyndham Lewis, and young Canadians...

• Format: Hardcover
• Language: English
• ISBN: 1442647922
• ISBN13: 9781442647923
• Release Date: August 2013
• Publisher: University of Toronto Press
• Length: 200 Pages
• Weight: 1.30 lbs.
• Dimensions: 0.8" x 7.2" x 10.1"