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This collection of essays explores ways in which visual cultures have engaged with armed conflict and politically-motivated acts of violence of all types. It works out of analytical frameworks developed in the fields of Art History and Visual Culture in order address the politics of representing conflict with in and beyond these disciplines. The contributors seek to extend perceived well-established academic approaches to thinking about visual production in the context of war, conflict, and militarism through a study of various themes, including historiography, subjectivity, biography, narrative construction, commemoration, identity, and memory formation. Each author considers how visual representations of conflict shape the meanings of politically significant events, of specific social formations, of subject positions and enacted roles. The volume investingates a set of representational regimes in visual media, including print-making, painting, photography and digital imaging and the use to which they have been put to generates as well as mediate realities of conflict
List of Illustrations vii
Acknowledgements xiii
Introduction: Images of Conflict Gil Pasternak Paul Fox 1
Chapter 1 Fragments and the Epic: Soldierly Subjectivity After Napoleon Sue Walker 17
Chapter 2 Camp Life: News Pictures of Military Men and Domesticity in British and French Imperial Armies c.1870 to c.1900 Tom Gretton 39
Chapter 3 Commemorating Historical Conflicts during the Peace Process: The Bicentenary of the 1798 Rebellion in Ireland and Northern Ireland Thomas Cauvin 65
Chapter 4 Cohesion in the Face of Chaos: The Ullstein Press Remembers the Spartacist Revolution in Germany Paul Fox 87
Chapter 5 Counter-regime Photography Under Fascism Martina Caruso 113
Chapter 6 Playing Soldiers: Posing Militarism in the Domestic Sphere Gil Pasternak 139
Chapter 7 Haven't I seen that before? British Press Photographs of Family Loss during the Iraq Conflict Katy Parry 169
Chapter 8 The Authentic Snap? D.I.Y. Reporting in the Age of "We Media" Alexandra Moschovi 187
Endnotes 205
Bibliography 217
Contributors 243
Index 247
Overview
This collection of essays explores ways in which visual cultures have engaged with armed conflict and politically-motivated acts of violence of all types. It works out of analytical frameworks developed in the fields of Art History and Visual Culture in order address the politics of representing conflict with in and beyond these disciplines. The contributors seek to extend perceived well-established academic approaches to thinking about visual production in the context of war, conflict, and militarism through a ...