Art or Memorial?: The Forgotten History of Canada's War Art

by Laura Brandon

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ISBN 1-55238-178-1
264 pp., colour and b&w photographs
8" x 10"

Canadian Studies

About the Book

The Canadian War Museum has possession of one of the finest twentieth-century war art collections in the world. Recalling themes surrounding memory and identity, the ten studies contained herein examine the context of the genre’s historical and cultural meaning. This book will examine the activity that has surrounded the collection’s history as the single largest repository of official war art in Canada, thus providing a particularly fruitful site for exploring the construction of memory. Striking full colour images from notable artists such as Alex Colville and A.Y. Jackson transport the reader into a unique time and place, enabling a deeper understanding of the artists and their compelling, often disturbing, but always profound images.

About the Author

Laura Brandon is the Curator of War Art for the Canadian War Museum in Ottawa, and has written extensively on war art and Canadian art history. In 2005 her biography on artist Pegi Nicol MacLeod won the Ontario Historical Society’s Alison Prentice Award for best book in women’s history.

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