Reviewers are sought for the elements listed below for upcoming issues of Arts of War and Peace. If one of these items interests you, please contact Mark Meigs and/or Jennifer Kilgore-Caradec. Suggestions for other items to review (not listed here) are also welcome for consideration.
HISTORY AND NON-FICTION
Thomas W. Laqueur. The Work of the Dead: A Cultural History of Mortal Remains, Princeton and Oxford: Princeton University Press, 2015.
Eric Alliez and Maurizio Lazzarato. Wars and Capital, Semiotexte(s), 2018.
Tom Englehardt. A Nation Unmade by War, Haymarket Books, 2018.
LITERATURE
Kate Atkinson. Transcription, Little, Brown and Company, 2018.
Claire Bowen and Catherine Hoffman (eds). Representing Wars from 1860 to the Present: Fields of Action, Fields of Vision, Textual Studies in Comparative Literature, Volume 85, Leiden: Brill, Rodopi, 2018.
Peter Herman (ed). Terrorism and Literature, Cambridge: CUP, 2018.
Kate McLoughlin. Veteran Poetics: British Literature in the Age of Mass Warfare, 1790-2015, Cambridge: CUP, 2018.
Jean Moorcroft-Wilson. Robert Graves: From Great War Poet to Good-bye to All That 1895-1929, London: Bloomsbury Continuum, 2018.
Paul O’Prey (ed). Poems of Love and War, Mary Borden, Unicorn, 2016.
ARTWORKS, ART BOOKS, ART HISTORY
Joanna Bourke. War and Art, A Visual History of Modern Conflict, Reaktion Books, 2017.
MUSIC
John Mullen (ed). Popular Song in the First World War: An International Perspective. Ashgate/Routledge, 2018.
FILM
Xavier Beauvois. Les Guardiennes (2017).
Miles Lagoze, Combat Obscura (2019).
EXHIBITS
Exhibit ‘Familles à l’épreuve de la guerre’. Musée de la Grande Guerre, Meaux, June 2-December 2, 2018.
War and Pieced: The Annette Gero Collection of Quilts from Military Fabrics. International Quilt Study Center & Museum, University of Lincoln-Nebraska, May 25-September 16, 2018. (Previously shown at the American Folk Art Museum, NYC, September 6, 2017-January 7, 2018).
Exhibit ‘War and Peace in Liberia’ including photographs by Tim Hetherington and Chris Hondros, Bronx Documentary Center, New York City, Oct 26, 2018-Jan 13, 2019.
Online Exhibit ‘Degenerate Art’ at MoMA.
Keswick Museum, Exhibit ‘War and Peace’, January 12 to May 12, 2019.
‘Artists Respond: American Art and the Vietnam War, 1965-1975’ Exhibit at the Smithsonian American Art Museum through August 18, 2019.
‘Women War Photographers. From Lee Miller to Anja Niedringhaus’ at Kunst Palast, Düsseldorf. March 8-June 10, 2019.