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An encyclopedic survey of artists' responses - both 'official' and personal - to 'the horrors of war'. This work reveals the diversity of artists' portrayals of this most devastating aspect of the human condition - from the 'heroic' paintings of Benjamin West and John Singer Sargent to brutal and iconic works by artists from Goya to Picasso.

About the Author

Laura Brandon is Curator of War Art for the Canadian War Museum in Ottawa. She is the author of Art or Memorial?: The Forgotten History of Canada's War Art.

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