| Description |
1 online resource (xiii, 232 pages) : illustrations |
| Summary |
German art student Otto Schubert was 22 years old when he was drafted into the Great War. As the conflict unfolded, he painted a series of postcards that he sent to his sweetheart, Irma. During the battles of Ypres and Verdun, Schubert filled dozens of military-issued 4" x 6" cards with vivid images depicting the daily realities and tragedies of war. Beautifully illustrated with full-color reproductions of his exquisite postcards, as well as his wartime sketches, woodcuts, and two lithograph portfolios, Postcards from the Trenches is Schubert's war diary, love journal, and life story. His powerful artworks illuminate and document in a visual language the truths of war. Postcards from the Trenches offers the first full account of Otto Schubert, soldier-artist of the Great War, rising art star in the 1920s, prolific graphic artist and book illustrator, one of the "degenerate" artists defamed by the Nazis, and a man shattered by the Second World War and the Cold War. Created in the midst of enormous devastation, Schubert's haunting visual missives are as powerful and relevant today as they were a century ago. His postcards are both a young man's token of love and longing and a soldier's testimony of the Great War.**Please note that this will work best on a colour device** |
| Bibliography |
Includes bibliographical references and index. |
| Contents |
The Great War and the uses of art -- German artists and the Great War -- The life and art of Otto Schubert. |
| Note |
Print version record. |
| Local Note |
eBooks on EBSCOhost EBSCO eBook Public Library Collection (North America) |
| Subject |
World War, 1914-1918 -- Pictorial works.
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Postcards -- Germany -- 20th century.
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ART -- Techniques -- Drawing.
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Postcards. (OCoLC)fst01073018
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Germany. (OCoLC)fst01210272
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World War (1914-1918) (OCoLC)fst01180746
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| Chronological Term |
1900-1999
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| Genre/Form |
Pictorial works. (OCoLC)fst01423874
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| Other Form: |
Print version: Guenther, Irene. Postcards from the trenches. London ; New York, NY : Bloomsbury Visual Arts, 2018 135001575X (OCoLC)1077355829 |
| ISBN |
9781350015760 (electronic book) |
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1350015768 (electronic book) |
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9781350015777 (epub) |
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1350015776 (epub) |
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