War paint : art, war, state and identity in Britain, 1939-1945 / Brian Foss.

Collection type	Library
Author	Foss, Brian M. (Brian Malzard); Paul Mellon Centre for Studies in British Art.;
Call Number	ART
Document type	Monograph
Year	c2007.
Pagination	x, 254 p. : ill. (some col.), ports ; 28 cm.
Publisher	Yale University Press,
Note	Published for the Paul Mellon Centre for Studies in British Art. Includes bibliographical references (p. 231-232) and index. "In this examination of British war art during the Second World War, Brian Foss delves deeply into what art meant to Britain and its people at a time when the nation's very survival was under threat. Foss probes the impact of war art on the relations between art, state patronage and public interest in art, and he considers how this period of duress affected the trajectory of British Modernism. Supported by some two hundred illustrations and extensive archival research, the book offers the richest, most nu anced view of mid-century art and artists in Britain yet written."--BOOK JACKET.
Place made	New Haven [Conn.] ; London

Abstract

1. 'To keep artists at work' : supporting art and artists in wartime -- 2. Britain besieged : survival and meaning on the home front -- 3. 'These most exacting jobs' : women's work in art and war -- 4. Putting the war into war art -- 5. The art of persuas ion -- 6. State patronage and national culture : Kenneth Clark and British art.