Special Issue: Scottish Art in the Great War
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Glasgow School of Art
- Unit of assessment
- 32 - Art and Design: History, Practice and Theory
- Output identifier
- 4329
- Type
- B - Edited book
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- Publisher
- Scottish Society for Art History
- ISBN
- 0000000000
- Open access status
- Out of scope for open access requirements
- Month of publication
- December
- Year of publication
- 2015
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- Output has been delayed by COVID-19
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- Forensic science
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- Criminology
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- Interdisciplinary
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- Number of additional authors
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0
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- Proposed double-weighted
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- Reserve for an output with double weighting
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- Additional information
- Volume 20 of the Journal of the Scottish Society for Art History is dedicated to the subject of Scottish Art in relation to the First World War. Published on the hundredth anniversary of WWI, the publication presents new research that sought to address absences in the current historiography on the subject. Purposely dedicated to the work of Scottish artists, institutions and collections, the research presents a corrective to a field predominantly concerned with Great Britain as a defining concept and national context for such research (e.g. James Fox’s British Art and the First World War, 1914–1924, 2015). This special issue builds on the research of Patricia Andrew (A Chasm in Time: Scottish War Art and Artists in the Twentieth Century, 2014); the first study to address the broad absence of this subject.
In addition to writing the Preface, I selected and edited the papers in a peer-review process. Central to the project was the curation of the contributions, which sought to demonstrate overlapping methodological concerns in a range of topics. This research asks: How were forms of visual representation used in the articulation (or absencing) of the experience of war? The published research takes an interest in agencies of production beyond the professional role of the artist or designer e.g. the ephemeral drawings, anecdotes, jokes and poetry that convalescing soldiers made in Scottish hospitals (as discussed in Louise Williams’ essay).
Drawing connections between often overlooked materials and archives, the special issue addresses broader questions of the framing of nationhood and war e.g. in contemporary artist Graham Fagen’s connection between Scottish pacifist poetry and the trading and political connection with Jamaican soldiers who served in the army of the British Empire.
This research was initially presented at a study day held in February 2015 at The Black Watch Museum, Perth.
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- Non-English
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