{"product_id":"a-bitter-truth-avantgarde-art-and-the-great-war-9780300057041","title":"A Bitter Truth: Avant-Garde Art and the Great War","description":"\u003cp\u003eThe trauma of the First World War had an immensely powerful effect on the painters  sculptors  and printmakers who participated in it. They produced an extraordinary range of striking images that conveyed the immediacy and horror of their experiences and feelings. This arresting book is the first to bring together and examine the full international array of images spawned by the Great War. Richard Cork shows how avant-garde artists from Europe  Russia  and the United States challenged the recruiting posters and other propagandist views of the struggle by producing art that reflected the degradation of the trenches. Many of their images are now counted among the landmarks of early twentieth-century art  but his pioneering and lavishly illustrated book also examines a wealth of far less familiar work. The conflict was anticipated before hostilities began by the visionary and apocalyptic work of painters such as Meidner and Kandinsky  Chagall  Nevinson  Grosz  Beckmann  Kirchner  and other artists were quick to define wars essential tragedy with objective  expressionist  or allegorical art that alluded to their own wartime experiences. The harshest images of war were made in the later stages or after the Armistice  when artists such as Dix had time to consider their participation in the war. Ironically  the post-war years also witnessed the redemptive work of Spencer and Brancusi who  after the Armistice  produced monumental affirmations of brotherhood  fortitude  and love.\u003c\/p\u003e","brand":"My Store","offers":[{"title":"Default Title","offer_id":45651652640821,"sku":"ByrdShop_0300057040","price":64.36,"currency_code":"USD","in_stock":true}],"thumbnail_url":"\/\/cdn.shopify.com\/s\/files\/1\/0627\/8139\/0901\/files\/9780300057041.jpg?v=1781837046","url":"https:\/\/atxbooks.com\/products\/a-bitter-truth-avantgarde-art-and-the-great-war-9780300057041","provider":"ATX Books","version":"1.0","type":"link"}