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Author Gallois, Caroline, author.

Title William Orpen, an outsider in France : painting and writing World War One / by Caroline Gallois.

Publication Info. Newcastle upon Tyne : Cambridge Scholars Publishing, 2018.

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Description 1 online resource (xix, 209 pages)
Physical Medium polychrome
Description text file
Bibliography Includes bibliographical references.
Summary "William Orpen (1878-1931) was in 1917 appointed as an official war artist in France. He not only saw the Great War as a call to paint serious subject-matter--enabling him to break away from the constraints of society portraiture in London--but also as an opportunity to write. Orpen was commissioned, along with artists such as Paul Nash, Stanley Spencer and Wyndham Lewis, to paint for the Department of Information. He was the only war artist to keep a written record of his wartime experience, published in 1921 as An Onlooker in France. In his Preface, Orpen rather too modestly states: "This book must not be considered as a serious work on life in France behind the lines, it is merely an attempt to record some certain little incidents that occurred in my own life there." This art-historical study is a companion to this "attempt". It examines, within the context of the global crisis that WWI was, and from various theoretical, philosophical and literary angles, his singular and at times provocative work. Orpen set out to provide a textual and visual record of life on the Western Front, as well as behind the lines--of what was supposed to be the "War to End all Wars". For want of being a "fighting man", the non-combatant artist-writer determined to fight with his own arms, his pens and brushes."--Publisher's description
Contents Intro; Table of Contents; Acknowledgements; Preface; Introduction; Abbreviations; Part I: Inside, "I felt myself in another world" (OF 120); Chapter One; Chapter Two; Chapter Three; Part II: Outside, "I felt very out of things" (OF 153); Chapter Four; Chapter Five; Chapter Six; Part III: Inside Out, "I found something wrong" (OF 191); Chapter Seven; Chapter Eight; Chapter Nine; Conclusion; Bibliography
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Subject Orpen, William, Sir, 1878-1931. Onlooker in France, 1917-1919.
Orpen, William 1878-1931.
War artists -- Ireland.
War artists.
Ireland.
World War, 1914-1918 -- Art and the war.
World War (1914-1918)
Genre/Form Art and the war.
Subject ART -- History -- General.
Weltkrieg 1914-1918.
Frankreich.
Chronological Term 1914-1918
Genre/Form Electronic books.
Art.
Biografie.
Art.
Other Form: Print version: Gallois, Caroline. William Orpen, an outsider in France. Newcastle upon Tyne : Cambridge Scholars Publishing, 2018 152750834X (OCoLC)1028520980
ISBN 9781527525849 (electronic book)
1527525848 (electronic book)
152750834X
9781527508347