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Tue, 10/14/2014 - 11:30am to 12:00pm
Joseph Gallivan interviews Mary Weaver Chapin about This is War! at PAM
On Tuesday October 14 at 11.30am Joseph Gallivan interviews the Mary Weaver Chapin, the Curator of Graphic Arts at the Portland Art Museum.
Weaver Chapin talks about the current show This Is War! Graphic Arts from the Great War which runs now through Dec 14, 2014. She will highlight posters and prints that range from the build up to the war, including propaganda posters from several perspectives, as well as scenes of horror recollected in the tranquility of the war's aftermath.
(Audio editing by Ramona Fankhauser)
From the press release:
This year marks the centenary of the commencement of the Great War, the conflict that engulfed Europe and altered the course of 20th-century life, history, and politics.
The Great War also had a profound impact on all forms of artistic expression. At first anticipated and even welcomed by young visual artists as a cataclysm that would renew European society, the war, together with the bitter realities of warfare, soon enveloped the continent. Artists including Otto Dix, Kerr Eby, George Grosz, and Erich Heckel fought in the conflict and recorded their experiences concurrently or years later, seeking to warn future generations of the horrors of war. Others, such as Käthe Kollwitz, focused their artistic talents on those left behind: bereft mothers, grieving parents, and innocent children. Artists who were past inscription age were enlisted to create powerful graphics urging their fellow civilians to support the war efforts. While the German art of World War I is perhaps best known and best represented in this exhibition of woodcuts, etchings, posters, and drawings, important contributions from American, Belgian, English, French, and Swiss artists add to the diversity of visual expression and experience.
This Is War! Graphic Arts from the Great War is drawn from the collection of the Portland Art Museum and features many important recent acquisitions. The exhibition is greatly enhanced by promised gifts of Daniel Bergsvik and Donald Hastler, and work from the collection of Tom and Lore Firman. The exhibition offers a gripping look at the conflict, and of several themes and voices that dominated the graphic arts at the time. This Is War! explores trench warfare, life on the home front, soldiers on leave, the influence of posters in supporting the war effort, and the role of periodicals such as Kriegzeit (Wartime) in disseminating both the graphic arts as well as the political messages of the day.
Organized by the Portland Art Museum and curated by Mary Weaver Chapin, Ph.D., Curator of Graphic Arts. The exhibition is supported in part by the Vivian and Gordon Gilkey Endowment for Graphic Arts.
Joseph Gallivan has been a reporter since 1990. He has covered music for the London Independent, Technology for the New York Post, and arts and culture for the Portland Tribune. He is the author of two novels, "Oi, Ref!" and "England All Over" which are available on Amazon.com
josephgallivan@gmail.com
Weaver Chapin talks about the current show This Is War! Graphic Arts from the Great War which runs now through Dec 14, 2014. She will highlight posters and prints that range from the build up to the war, including propaganda posters from several perspectives, as well as scenes of horror recollected in the tranquility of the war's aftermath.
(Audio editing by Ramona Fankhauser)
From the press release:
This year marks the centenary of the commencement of the Great War, the conflict that engulfed Europe and altered the course of 20th-century life, history, and politics.
The Great War also had a profound impact on all forms of artistic expression. At first anticipated and even welcomed by young visual artists as a cataclysm that would renew European society, the war, together with the bitter realities of warfare, soon enveloped the continent. Artists including Otto Dix, Kerr Eby, George Grosz, and Erich Heckel fought in the conflict and recorded their experiences concurrently or years later, seeking to warn future generations of the horrors of war. Others, such as Käthe Kollwitz, focused their artistic talents on those left behind: bereft mothers, grieving parents, and innocent children. Artists who were past inscription age were enlisted to create powerful graphics urging their fellow civilians to support the war efforts. While the German art of World War I is perhaps best known and best represented in this exhibition of woodcuts, etchings, posters, and drawings, important contributions from American, Belgian, English, French, and Swiss artists add to the diversity of visual expression and experience.
This Is War! Graphic Arts from the Great War is drawn from the collection of the Portland Art Museum and features many important recent acquisitions. The exhibition is greatly enhanced by promised gifts of Daniel Bergsvik and Donald Hastler, and work from the collection of Tom and Lore Firman. The exhibition offers a gripping look at the conflict, and of several themes and voices that dominated the graphic arts at the time. This Is War! explores trench warfare, life on the home front, soldiers on leave, the influence of posters in supporting the war effort, and the role of periodicals such as Kriegzeit (Wartime) in disseminating both the graphic arts as well as the political messages of the day.
Organized by the Portland Art Museum and curated by Mary Weaver Chapin, Ph.D., Curator of Graphic Arts. The exhibition is supported in part by the Vivian and Gordon Gilkey Endowment for Graphic Arts.
Joseph Gallivan has been a reporter since 1990. He has covered music for the London Independent, Technology for the New York Post, and arts and culture for the Portland Tribune. He is the author of two novels, "Oi, Ref!" and "England All Over" which are available on Amazon.com
josephgallivan@gmail.com
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