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War artist
Artist who records their experience of war
For the genre, see Military art.
A war artist is an artist either commissioned bygd a government or publication, or self-motivated, to document first-hand experience of war in any form of illustrative or depictive record.[1][2] War artists explore the visual and sensory dimensions of war, often absent in written histories or other accounts of warfare.[4]
These artists may be involved in war as onlookers to the scenes, military personnel, or as specifically commissioned to be present and record military activity.[5]
Artists record military activities in ways that cameras and the written word cannot. Their art collects and distills the experiences of the people who endured it.[6] The artists and their artwork affect how subsequent generations view military conflicts. For example, Australian war artists who grew up between the two world wars were influenced by the artwork
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The Architect and the Artist: FDR, Olin Dows, and the New Deal Post Office Program
1 “The Architect and the Artist: FDR, Olin Dows, and the New Deal Post Office Program” (published in the New York History Review, 2013 Annual Issue) by Jim Blackburn A happy coincidence brings to us today a unique opportunity. The cornerstone at Rhinebeck’s new Post Office is about to be laid as a part of this ceremony of dedication. The Post Office has been built by the Secretary of the Treasury, who is with us. It has been turned over to the Postmaster General, who will use it and who is also with us. Their Royal Highnesses, the Crown Prince and Crown Princess of Denmark and Iceland have come to us, having voyaged from Denmark through the Panama Canal to San Francisco and back across the Continent. 1 It is unknown if these royal guests were offered hot dogs during their stay with the Roosevelt’s as they were, famously to the King and Queen of Great Britain later that same summer, but the dedication
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Thomas Wolfe's Rhinebeck
By THOMAS SHANNON
Thomas Wolfe, a titan of American letters in the late 1920s and ’30s, was well known for the lyrical quality, autobiographical nature, and sheer length of his novels. The recent limited-release film Genius committed to cinema the story of Charles Scribner's Sons editor Maxwell Perkins and his efforts to shepherd Wolfe's debut novel, Look Homeward, Angel: A Story of the Buried Life, to publication. An obscure fact about this half-forgotten author is that a substantial portion of Look Homeward, Angel, perhaps as many as seven chapters, was produced in Rhinebeck, N.Y., on the Fox Hollow estate in the summer of 1927.
Wolfe's multiple visits to Rhinebeck in the 1920s and his two-week stay in 1927 emerged from his friendship with Olin Dows. They met while attending Harvard; Wolfe studying to be a playwright and Dows pursuing his vocation as a painter. Their acquaintance lapsed for a few years before they ran into each o