The Palgrave Handbook of Artistic and Cultural Responses to War since 1914

1. Front Matter

   Pages i-xxix

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2. Introduction: Artistic and Cultural Responses to War

   • Martin Kerby, Margaret Baguley, Janet McDonald

   Pages 1-20

3. Loss, Grief and Resilience

   1. Front Matter

      Pages 21-21

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   2. No Agency: Iraq and Afghanistan at War—The Perspective of Commissioned War Artists

      • Charles Green, Lyndell Brown

      Pages 23-43

   3. Megan Leavey and the Popular Visual Culture of the War-on-Terror

      • Paul Duncum

      Pages 45-61

   4. Tommy Talk: War Hospital Magazines and the Literature of Resilience and Healing

      • Alice Brumby

      Pages 63-79

   5. Wirral and the Great War

      • Stephen Roberts

      Pages 81-97

   6. Touring the Battlefields of the Somme with the Michelin and Somme Tourisme Guidebooks

      • Caroline Winter

      Pages 99-115

   7. Pro patria mori: A Memorial in Music

      • Phillip Gearing

      Pages 117-129

   8. The Stamps-Baxter GI School of Music

      • Jeannette Fresne

      Pages 131-146

   9. Witnesses to Death: Soldiers on the Western Front

      • Natasha Silk

      Pages 147-161

   10. The Soldier as Artist: Memories of War

       • Michael Armstrong

       Pages 163-180

   11. Icons of Horror: Three Enduring Images from the Vietnam War

       • John M. Harris

       Pages 181-198

4. Identity

   1. Front Matter

      Pages 199-199

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   2. The Weather in Our Souls: Curating a National Collection of Second World War Art at the Imperial War Museum

      • Claire Brenard

      Pages 201-217

   3. Write Propaganda, Shut Up or Fight: Philip Gibbs and the Western Front

      • Martin Kerby, Margaret Baguley, Abbey MacDonald

      Pages 219-236

   4. A War on Two Fronts: British Morale, Cinema and Total War, 1914–1958

      • Gerard Oram

      Pages 237-253

   5. (Re)Writing the Second World War: United States, Russian and German National History Textbooks in the Immediate Aftermath of 1989

      • Susan Santoli

      Pages 255-273

   6. They Wandered Far and Wide: The Scottish Soldier in the Australian Imperial Force

      • Fraser Brown

      Pages 275-289

   7. Scottish War Resisters and Conscientious Objectors, 1914–1919

      • William Kenefick

      Pages 291-307

This handbook explores a diverse range of artistic and cultural responses to modern conflict, from Mons in the First World War to Kabul in the twenty-first century. With over thirty chapters from an international range of contributors, ranging from the UK to the US and Australia, and working across history, art, literature, and media, it offers a significant interdisciplinary contribution to the study of modern war, and our artistic and cultural responses to it. The handbook is divided into three parts. The first part explores how communities and individuals responded to loss and grief by using art and culture to assimilate the experience as an act of survival and resilience. The second part explores how conflict exerts a powerful influence on the expression and formation of both individual, group, racial, cultural and national identities and the role played by art, literature, and education in this process. The third part moves beyond the actual experience of conflict and its connection with issues of identity to explore how individuals and society have made use of art and culture to commemorate the war. In this way, it offers a unique breadth of vision and perspective, to explore how conflicts have been both represented and remembered since the early twentieth century.

• First World War
• Spanish Civil War
• Second World War
• Korean War
• Vietnam War
• Falklands War
• Afghanistan War
• Iraq War

• University of Southern Queensland, Toowoomba, Australia

  Martin Kerby, Margaret Baguley, Janet McDonald

Martin Kerby is Senior Lecturer at the University of Southern Queensland, Australia. His research areas encompass both educational and historical areas. He recently received a USQ Publication Excellence Award for Sir Philip Gibbs and English Journalism in War and Peace (Palgrave Macmillan, 2016) and is the current Editor of Australian Art Education.



Margaret Baguley is Associate Professor in Arts Education, Curriculum and Pedagogy at the University of Southern Queensland as well as the President of Art Education Australia. She has recently co-edited The Palgrave International Handbook of Global Arts Education with Georgina Barton (Palgrave Macmillan, 2017).


Janet McDonald is Associate Professor of Drama and Theatre Studies in the School of Arts and Communication at the University of Southern Queensland, Australia. Her research areas include actor-training and wellbeing, localism andwellbeing, and liminal arts practices in regional areas which features prominently her in published book Creative Communities: Regional Inclusion in the Arts (2015), co-edited with Robert Mason.

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