Portraits of Remembrance: Painting, Memory, and the First World War Naval Warfare by Sebastien Japriscot

by Sebastien Japriscot

that they would fail

overlain with examinations of the attempts of many non-Russian national and religious groups to divide the former empire

the personalities and the political maneuvers

Portraits of Remembrance: Painting, Memory, and the First World War Naval Warfare by Sebastien JapriscotDescription edited by Margaret Hutchinson & Steven Trout Hardcover Although photography and moving pictures achieved ubiquity during the First World War as technological means of recording history, the far more traditional medium of painting played a vital role in the visual culture of combatant nations. The publics appetite for the kind of up close frontline action that snapshots and film footage could not yet provide resulted in a robust market for