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In an age when engraving and photography were making artistic images available to a much wider public, artists were able to influence public attitudes more powerfully than ever before. This book examines works of art on military themes in relation to ruling-class ideologies about the army, war and the empire. The first part of the book is devoted to a chronological survey of battle painting, integrated with a study of contemporary military and political history. The chapters link the debate over the status and importance of battle painting to contemporary debates over the role of the army and its function at home and abroad. The second part discusses the intersection of ideologies about the army and military art, but is concerned with an examination of genre representations of soldiers. Another important theme which runs through the book is the relation of English to French military art. During the first eighty years of the period under review France was the cynosure of military artists, the school against which British critics measured their own, and the place from which innovations were imported and modified. In every generation after Waterloo battle painters visited France and often trained there. The book shows that military art, or the 'absence' of it, was one of the ways in which nationalist commentators articulated Britain's moral superiority. The final theme which underlies much of the book is the shifts which took place in the perception of heroes and hero-worship.
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What did the army mean to the respectable classes of Victorian England - 'the scum of the earth' or brave Tommy Atkins holding the thin red line? What did images of the charge of the Light Brigade, the battle of Waterloo, of heroic scenes of blood and glory, mean to the Victorians? This stimulating book offers an important contribution to our understand of Victorian society through a study of its painting of soldiers and the army. It reveals the depth of the contempt in which the soldier was held at the opening of the century and charts the changes in the army's public image until the tragic climax of the Great War. It examines the careers of the most important artists of military subjects and discusses critical responses to their work. As the first complete survey of military painting in nineteenth-century Britain, the book will provide new information and insights for the study of history and of art history alike.
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What did the army mean to the respectable classes of Victorian England - 'the scum of the earth' or brave Tommy Atkins holding the thin red line? What did images of the charge of the Light Brigade, the battle of Waterloo, of heroic scenes of blood and glory, mean to the Victorians? This stimulating book offers an important contribution to our understand of Victorian society through a study of its painting of soldiers and the army. It reveals the depth of the contempt in which the soldier was held at the opening of the century and charts the changes in the army's public image until the tragic climax of the Great War. It examines the careers of the most important artists of military subjects and discusses critical responses to their work. As the first complete survey of military painting in nineteenth-century Britain, the book will provide new information and insights for the study of history and of art history alike.
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- Publisher Manchester University Press
- Publication Date March 2017
- Orginal LanguageEnglish
- ISBN/Identifier 9781526123596 / 1526123592
- Publication Country or regionUnited Kingdom
- FormatWeb PDF
- ReadershipGeneral/trade
- Publish StatusPublished
- Biblio NotesDerived from Proprietary 4567
- SeriesStudies in Imperialism
- Reference Code10294
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