Panel: The Great War & the Visual Arts: a 'show-&-tell'

18.30-20.00, Wednesday 27 October 2010
Anatomy Theatre Museum, King’s Building, Strand Campus
 

The aim of this event is to foster conversation between academics, artists and audience members about the visual ways in which the Great War has been imagined and remembered.
It will bring together well-known memorial images, for instance, official photographs of the Unknown Warrior’s coffin, with private and more localized commemorations. Pithy war cartoons will be placed alongside the still photographs and postcards comprising the Braintree ‘Roll of Honour’ film. The event will also showcase artists’ projects: the restoration of a 1917 First World War Shine; a wreath composed of women’s white gloves.

^{Image: 'Pale Armistice' has been reproduced with kind permission of Rozanne Hawksley. Photograph: Dewi Tannatt Lloyd. In the collection of the Imperial War Museum.}