Unofficial war artist / by Peter Kennard.

By: Contributor(s): Publisher: London : Imperial War Museum, 2015Description: 1 volume : illustrationsContent type:
  • text
  • still image
Media type:
  • unmediated
Carrier type:
  • volume
ISBN:
  • 9781904897712 (hbk.) :
  • 1904897711
Uniform titles:
  • Works. Selections
Subject(s): DDC classification:
  • 23
Summary: Peter Kennard is Britain's foremost political artist and has been at the cutting edge of global political image making since the Vietnam War. 'Unofficial War Artist' brings together the best of Kennard's work from 45 years of his career and accompanies a major retrospective of his work at IWM London, showcasing hundreds of his images related to war and conflict. Throughout the book Kennard's works are presented in their wider context with accompanying facts, data, newspaper clippings, United Nations reports, and testimony from both victims of war and its instigators. The result is a stark and powerful statement about the devastating impact of war and conflict.
List(s) this item appears in: Cultural Capital: Conflict, resolution and remembrance
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Published to accompany the exhibition of the same name held at IWM London, 14th May 2015-30th May 2015.

Peter Kennard is Britain's foremost political artist and has been at the cutting edge of global political image making since the Vietnam War. 'Unofficial War Artist' brings together the best of Kennard's work from 45 years of his career and accompanies a major retrospective of his work at IWM London, showcasing hundreds of his images related to war and conflict. Throughout the book Kennard's works are presented in their wider context with accompanying facts, data, newspaper clippings, United Nations reports, and testimony from both victims of war and its instigators. The result is a stark and powerful statement about the devastating impact of war and conflict.

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