Friday essay: how Australia's war art scheme fed national mythologies of WW1
- Written by Margaret Hutchison, Lecturer in History, Australian Catholic University
Will Dyson sketching close to the German lines on the Western Front, 29 May 1918.AWM E02439
War is often seen as a death knell for the arts, but during the first world war the Australian government mobilised some of the country’s most renowned expatriate artists to paint the conflict. Hired essentially as eyewitnesses to war, these men were...
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