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| Title: | Trench Art
: An Illustrated History |
| Author: | Jane A Kimball |
| ISBN: | 0975597108 : 9780975597101 |
| Illustrations: | colour photos |
| Format: | Hardback |
| Size: | 245x340mm |
| Pages: | 402 |
| Weight: | 2.755 Kg. |
| Published: | AtlasBooks (Silverpenny Press) - January 2004 |
| List Price: | 43.5 Pounds Sterling |
| Availability: | In Print |
| Subjects: | HISTORY OF ART/ART & DESIGN STYLES: Art styles: cFirst World War to 1960: World history: First World War: Military history: WARFARE & DEFENCE |
Early in World War I, the French press published illustrations of objects made by the 'artisanat de tranchées' (craftsmen of the trenches). Translated into English as 'trench art', this label stuck and continues to be used to describe pieces created from spent war materials or from items of military equipment. Soldier and civilian artisans on both sides of the conflict in the 'War to End All Wars' recycled and transformed materials designed to kill other human beings into an amazingly creative and diverse body of folk art that has been largely ignored by art historians and museum curators until recently. Some World War I trench art pieces were made as personal war mementoes by the artisans who created them, but many were sold to soldiers to take or send home as souvenirs. After the war, civilians and ex-soldiers in war-torn France and Belgium established cottage workshops that produced large numbers of 'trench art' souvenirs for sale to post-war battlefield tourists. Although the major focus of this book is on Great War trench art, several chapters describe and illustrate soldier crafts from earlier and more recent wars to fit these objects into a centuries old tradition that continues to the present day.
Introduction; Soldier Art Before World War I; Trench Art of the Great War; War Souvenirs; Decorated Shell Casings; Other Types of Trench Art; Decorated Military Equipment; Prisoners of War, Internees and Exiles; Convalescing and Disabled Soldiers; Battlefield Tourism and Remembrance; Commercial Souvenirs and War Surplus; Trench Art in the Interwar Years; Trench Art of World War II and After; Collecting Trench Art; Index.
