War Art. Murals and Graffiti - Military Life, Power and Subversion (Cba Research Report) - Softcover

Cocroft, Wayne D.; Devlin, Danielle; Schofield, John; Thomas, Roger J. C.

9781902771564: War Art. Murals and Graffiti - Military Life, Power and Subversion (Cba Research Report)

Softcover

ISBN 10: 1902771567 ISBN 13: 9781902771564

Publisher: Council for British Archaeology, 2006

Oxbow says: War, and especially the two World Wars, have left a great mark on the landscape although as the years go by, traces of abandoned military buildings, fortifications, pillboxes and so forth are gradually diminishing. But these are not the only fading signs of a past military life - a broad range of visual imagery is also disappearing. This study examines an arrary of modern military art, with most examples taken from England, including murals, graffiti, paintings on aircraft, carvings, sketches and photographs. A mural depicting an evacuee leaving his parents and para-military murals on walls in Northern Ireland illustrate the opposite ends of the spectrum. These are images of hope, memories of life back home, personal messages, portrayals of desires, of women, and messages of social comment and political propaganda. The accompanying text discusses the historical and military context of the art, its meaning and signifcance and the importance of its conservation.

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About the Author:

Wayne Cocroft is a Senior Investigator with Historic England and leads on 20th-century military heritage. He undertaken numerous surveys of recent military sites and has published on the archaeology of gunpowder and explosives manufacture, the Cold War, and the archaeology of rocketry. He is a Fellow of the Society of Antiquaries of London and a member of the Chartered Institute for Archaeologists.
John Schofield teaches Cultural Heritage Management and Archaeology at the University of York, where he is Head of the Archaeology Department. Prior to his appointment at York in 2010 John worked for English Heritage where he coordinated research and heritage protection activities for modern military sites in England. He is a Fellow of the Society of Antiquaries of London, a member of the Chartered Institute for Archaeologists and has published extensively on heritage as well as conflict and contemporary archaeology.

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