Portraits of Remembrance

Margaret Hutchison is adjunct lecturer at Australian Catholic University. She is the author of Painting War: A History of Australia's First World War Art Scheme.  Steven Trout is chair of the Department of English and codirector of the Center for the Study of War and Memory at the University of South Alabama in Mobile. He is author of Memorial Fictions: Willa Cather and the First World War, On the Battlefield of Memory: The First World War and American Remembrance, 1919-1941, and coeditor of World War I in American Fiction: An Anthology of Short Stories.

• List of IllustrationsAcknowledgmentsIntroductionPainting, Memory, and the First World WarMargaret Hutchison and Steven TroutChapter 1. En Souvenir: Albert Herter's Le DÉpart des Poilus, at Paris-EstMark LevitchChapter 2. Romaine Brooks's La France CroisÉe: Allegory, Androgyny, and AppropriationElizabeth Richards Rivenbark 000Chapter 3. A “rush frÉnÉtique”: Representation, Memory, and Georges Scott's La Brigade Marine AmÉricaine au Bois de BelleauSteven TroutChapter 4. An Ambivalent Patriot: Namik Ismail, the First World War, and the Politics of Remembrance in TurkeyGizem TongoChapter 5. Albin Egger-Lienz's Die Namenlosen 1914: Vienna Painters and the Great WarPhilip D. BeidlerChapter 6. Russia, Memory, and the Great War: Kuzma Petrov-Vodkin's In the Line of FireAndrew M. NeddChapter 7. The Canadians Opposite Lens: Augustus John's Unfinished First World War Canadian MasterpieceLaura BrandonChapter 8. Sacrifice, Grief, and National Memory in George Edmund Butler's Butte de PolygonCaroline LordChapter 9. Gatekeeper of Memory: The Australian War Memorial and Charles Bryant's HMAS Australia on the Way to Her DoomMargaret HutchisonChapter 10. Fortunino Matania's Goodbye, Old ManMarguerite HelmersChapter 11. James Clark's The Great SacrificePeter HarringtonChapter 12. Maksimilijan Vanka's Our Mothers and the Croatian Memory of the First World WarHeidi A. CookChapter 13. Der Krieg: Otto Dix's War Triptych, Memory, and the Perception of the First World WarMartin BayerChapter 14. From Propaganda to Remembrance: Alfred Bastien's The Panorama of the Yser BattleSandrine SmetsAfterwordJay WinterBibliographyContributorsIndex

Portraits of Remembrance is a welcome addition to scholarship on commemoration and memory of the First World War." - Pearl James, author of The New Death: American Modernism and World War I