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A vivid, engaging account of the artists and artworks that sought to make sense of America's first total war, Grand Illusions takes readers on a compelling journey through the major historical events leading up to and beyond US involvement in WWI to discover the vast and pervasive influence of the conflict on American visual culture. David M. Lubin presents a highly original examination of the era's fine arts and entertainment to show how they ranged from patriotic idealism to profound disillusionment. In stylishly written chapters, Lubin assesses the war's impact on two dozen painters, designers, photographers, and filmmakers from 1914 to 1933. He considers well-known figures such as Marcel Duchamp, John Singer Sargent, D. W. Griffith, and the African American outsider artist Horace Pippin while resurrecting forgotten artists such as the mask-maker Anna Coleman Ladd, the sculptor Gertrude Vanderbilt Whitney, and the combat artist Claggett Wilson. The book is liberally furnished with illustrations from epoch-defining posters, paintings, photographs, and films. Armed with rich cultural-historical details and an interdisciplinary narrative approach, David Lubin creatively upends traditional understandings of the Great War's effects on the visual arts in America.

World War, 1914-1918 --- Arts, American --- Arts and society --- American arts --- Themes, motives. --- History --- Art and the war --- Arts [American ] --- 20th century --- Themes, motives --- United States

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For mid-19th-century Americans, the Mexican War was not only a grand exercise in self-identity, legitimizing the young republic's convictions of mission and destiny to a doubting world; it was also the first American conflict to be widely reported in the press and to be waged against an alien foe in a distant and exotic land. It provided a window onto the outside world and promoted an awareness of a people and a land unlike any Americans had known before. This rich cultural history examines the place of the Mexican War in the popular imagination of the era. Drawing on military and travel accounts, newspaper dispatches, and a host of other sources, Johannsen vividly recreates the mood and feeling of the period--its unbounded optimism and patriotic pride--and adds a new dimension to our understanding of both the Mexican War and America itself.

Mexican War, 1846-1848 --- Mexican-American War, 1846-1848 --- United States-Mexican War, 1846-1848 --- Art and the war --- Influence --- Literature and the war --- Regions & Countries - Americas --- United States - General --- History & Archaeology --- Mexican War, 1846-1848. --- Influence. --- Literature and the war. --- Art and the war.

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In Germany, the years immediately following World War II call forward images of obliterated cities, hungry refugees, and ghostly monuments to Nazi crimes. The temptation of despair was hard to resist, and to contemporary observers the road toward democracy in the Western zones of occupation seemed rather uncertain. Drawing on a vast array of American, German, and other sources--diaries, photographs, newspaper articles, government reports, essays, works of fiction, and film--Werner Sollors makes visceral the experiences of defeat and liberation, homelessness and repatriation, concentration camps and denazification. These tales reveal writers, visual artists, and filmmakers as well as common people struggling to express the sheer magnitude of the human catastrophe they witnessed. Some relied on traditional images of suffering and death, on Biblical scenes of the Flood and the Apocalypse. Others shaped the mangled, nightmarish landscape through abstract or surreal forms of art. Still others turned to irony and black humor to cope with the incongruities around them. Questions about guilt and complicity in a totalitarian country were raised by awareness of the Holocaust, making "After Dachau" a new epoch in Western history. The Temptation of Despair is a book about coming to terms with the mid-1940s, the contradictory emotions of a defeated people--sorrow and anger, guilt and pride, despondency and resilience--as well as the ambiguities and paradoxes of Allied victory and occupation.

Reconstruction (1939-1951) --- Denazification. --- Social psychology --- World War, 1939-1945 --- Influence (Literary, artistic, etc.). --- Social psychology. --- War and literature. --- War and motion pictures. --- Besetzung --- Entnazifizierung --- Denazifiering --- Socialpsykologi. --- Andra världskriget 1939-1945 i konsten. --- Andra världskriget 1939-1945 i litteraturen. --- Film och krig. --- Andra världskriget 1939-1945 --- Influence. --- Art and the war --- Literature and the war. --- Motion pictures and the war. --- historia. --- influenser. --- Reconstruction (1939-1951). --- World War (1939-1945). --- 1939-1951. --- Geschichte 1945-1948. --- Germany. --- Deutschland --- Reconstruction (1939-1951) -- Germany. --- Social psychology -- Germany. --- World War, 1939-1945 -- Art and the war. --- World War, 1939-1945 -- Influence. --- Denazification --- History & Archaeology --- History - General --- Influence --- Literature and the war --- Motion pictures and the war --- Besetzung. --- Entnazifizierung. --- Art and the war. --- Deutschland. --- World War, 1939-1945, in art --- Mass psychology --- Psychology, Social --- Human ecology --- Psychology --- Social groups --- Sociology --- Influenser. --- Historia.

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The 1948 War is remembered in this special volume, including aspects of Israeli-Jewish memory and historical narratives of 1948 and representations of Israeli-Palestinian memory of that cataclysmic event and its consequences. The contributors map and analyze a range of perspectives of the 1948 War as represented in literature, historical museums, art, visual media, and landscape, as well as in competing official and societal narratives. They are examined especially against the backdrop of the Oslo process, which brought into relief tensions within and between both sides of the national divide concerning identity and legitimacy, justice, and righteousness of "self" and "other."

Collective memory --- Israel-Arab War, 1948-1949 --- Collective remembrance --- Common memory --- Cultural memory --- Emblematic memory --- Historical memory --- National memory --- Public memory --- Social memory --- Memory --- Social psychology --- Group identity --- National characteristics --- Arab-Israel War, 1948-1949 --- Jewish-Arab War, 1948-1949 --- Palestine War, 1948-1949 --- Arab-Israeli conflict --- Television and the war. --- Art and the war. --- Literature and the war. --- Historiography.

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949.32 LEUVEN --- 949.3.034 --- World War, 1914-1918 --- -World War, 1914-1918 --- -Ciivlization, Modern --- -Culture --- -949.3.034 Geschiedenis van België: 1ste wereldoorlog (1914-1918) --- Geschiedenis van België: 1ste wereldoorlog (1914-1918) --- Cultural sociology --- Culture --- Sociology of culture --- Civilization --- European War, 1914-1918 --- First World War, 1914-1918 --- Great War, 1914-1918 --- World War 1, 1914-1918 --- World War I, 1914-1918 --- World War One, 1914-1918 --- WW I (World War, 1914-1918) --- WWI (World War, 1914-1918) --- History, Modern --- 949.32 LEUVEN Geschiedenis van België: hertogdom Brabant; provincie Brabant--(reg./lok.)--LEUVEN --- Geschiedenis van België: hertogdom Brabant; provincie Brabant--(reg./lok.)--LEUVEN --- Social aspects --- -Congresses --- Art and the war --- Literature and the war --- Congresses --- Civilization, Modern --- 949.3.034 Geschiedenis van België: 1ste wereldoorlog (1914-1918) --- Popular culture --- Art and the war&delete& --- Literature and the war&delete& --- Social aspects&delete&