Research and Encounters around the Conservation of a Vietnamese War Painting by Sabine Cotte

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L'œuvre d'art en tant que témoignage: les artistes confrontés à la guerre by Dolores Fernández Martínez

“…We have the universal example of Goya, giving testimony of what he saw during independence war, and we have several drawings made by jews at the Nazis extermination camps or those of republican Spanish artists at the French concentration camps. …”
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Coda: The War of Poetry: Duncan’s Heresies by Michael Heller

“…The “war” in which he is a protagonist most often wrestling with himself but also with the cultural and political environment in which he writes, is to liberate form – not to choose one form over another – but to bring form to possibility, to express form as the creative artist’s fulfillment of “the law that he creates,” to see poetry’s “every freedom,” as leading toward human liberation. …”
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La resistenza culturale nel Libano contemporaneo. Le sfide di artiste locali e profughe by Estella Carpi, Stefano Fogliata

“…The article discusses the so-called "humanitarianization" of funding, through which especially the artistic projects that can serve as instruments of political neutrality and of "medicalization" of post-war traumas are supported. …”
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Science for Architecture: Designing Architectural Research in Post-War Sweden by Frida Rosenberg

“…How did architectural research in Sweden become scientific in its approach rather than artistic, as architecture education in the post-war period was primarily influenced by the Bauhaus pedagogy?
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Who’s In and Who’s Out? War News from Mexico and the Framing of Evil by Alan Hirsch

“…In Richard Caton Woodville’s 1848 painting, War News from Mexico, eleven figures crowd in and around a portico. …”
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“True fiction” – the memory and the postmemory of traumatic war events in a picturebook by Magdalena Howorus-Czajka

“…The World War II has left an emotional wound, and its direct victims as well as new generations have to cope with it. …”
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Rock Music and The Political Scripting of Vietnam War: Reading Dispatches by Michael Herr by Lalit Kumar

“…Using Herr’s Dispatches as a case study, it investigates how rock music encapsulates the war’s ambiguous energy, blurring the boundaries between artistic expression and the realities of conflict. …”
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“Wairon and Waimansusu”: War Boat and Trade Boat of The Biak People in Papua-Indonesia by Rumbekwan Albert, Sulistiyono Singgih Tri, Rochwulaningsih Yety, Susilowati Endang, Ali Ismail, Masruroh Noor Naelil

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Joseph Loxton Rawbon, the "Master Restorer" by Cyndie Lack

“…A colourful character with bombastic flair, his numerous enterprises, however limited in their success, exemplify the boundless optimism of the Industrial Age and open a small window onto the history of Toronto's early cultural development through to the Second World War.  Remarkably, Rawbon believed that, like his artist's stretchers and other inventions, the restoration of paintings held a key to the making of a fortune.…”
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« Rejoindre les civilisations », Victor Brauner et sa collection d’arts extra-européens by Noémie Fillon

“…The artist frequented the second generation of Parisian markets that emerged after the Second World War and also acquired works in Amsterdam. …”
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Indianisation et dépolitisation des victimes de la guerre au Pérou. L’exemple du mémorial L’Œil-qui-pleure by Dorothée Delacroix

“…Based on several observations of this ceremony, supplemented by interviews with the artist and human rights activists, this article aims to interrogate the process of ethnicization of victims and the way in which it has guided an essential component of symbolic reparation programs: commemorations of the war. …”
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Expériences carcérales et traductions picturalesLe témoignage du peintre et objecteur de conscience Didier Poiraud durant et après la guerre d’indépendance algérienne (1961-1964)... by Marc André

“…The Algerian War has long been considered a “war without images”, owing to a combination of state censorship and the self-censorship of artists themselves. …”
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Donald Barthelme’s “Report” and Michal Rovner’s Decoy series, or the Ongoing Art of Telling It Slant by Sandrine Dechaume

“…In Barthelme’s short story, the emphasis is on excess and satire, whereas in Rovner’s Gulf War images, media representations of war are deconstructed through the use of overexposed and blurred imagery.…”
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« Une constellation dans la nuit de l'histoire, une tache lumineuse devant les ténèbres de la mort » : l'œuvre d'Ernst Wilhelm Nay vue par Werner Haftmann by Vincenza Benedettino

“…The professional and amicable relationship between the art historian Werner Haftmann (1912-1999) and the abstract artist Ernst Wilhelm Nay (1902-1969) in the Federal Republic of Germany during the post-war period is an emblematic case of the development of an art historiography. …”
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De la paix à la guerre, de la fiction au documentaire. Alexandre Dovjenko et Youlia Solntseva by Vanessa Voisin

“…Aleksandre Dovzhenko's artistic trajectory underwent a critical change during the Second World War. …”
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The Semantics of the Absurd: On German ‘Hermetic’ Poetry and Political Commitment after 1945 by Marko Pajević

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Lucio Fontana and the Architecture by Antonella Chiazza

“…This article explores the Spatialism in architectural terms, which is at the base of Lucio Fontana’s work after the Second World War. A fundamental and lesser-known aspect of the artist’s work, developed since 1949, is the creation of ‘Ambienti Spaziali’, really and truly architectural spaces that test the perception and often even the sense of balance of visitors. …”
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Primordiality of Salvatore Scarpitta by Antonella Chiazza

“…The article analyzes the artistic research by Salvatore Scarpitta, one of the major protagonists of the international art scene after the Second World War, in its different phases: expressionist, abstract-figurative and informal. …”
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John McHale, l’Amérique passée à la machine by Juliette Bessette

“…In 1956 the artist John McHale returned to London after spending a year at Yale University. …”
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