Exhibitions
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Military/War Art and Artists
including naval,maritime and aviation art and artists
"There are few die well that die in a battle;for how can they charitably
dispose of any thing,when blood is their argument"
Quotation from: William Shakespeare "HENRY V".
"General Routine Order No.2384 Classification And Disposal Of Officers And Other Ranks Who Without Any Visible Wound Become Non-Effective From Physical Conditions Claimed Or Presumed To Have Originated From The Effects Of British Or Enemy Weapons In Action.....
(2) The Regimental Medical Officer,or officer commanding a medical unit...will not record any diagnosis. He will enter on the Field Medical Card...the letters 'NYDN' (Not Yet Diagnosed, Nervous) only,....
(5)...In no circumstances whatever will the expression 'shell-shock' be used verbally or be recorded in any regimental or other casualty report,or in any hospital or other medical document,except..."
British Expeditionary Force army order,June 7,1917 issued in France.
"The Supreme Command Of The Red Army Orders:
...The military Councils of the fronts and first of all front commanders should:...
Form within each Front 1 to 3...penal battalions...where commanding,senior commanders,and political officers of corresponding ranks from all services,who have broken discipline due to cowardice or instability,should be sent. These battalions should be put on the more difficult sections of a Front,thus giving them an opportunity to redeem their crimes against the Motherland by blood."
Quotation(extract) from: Order #227 by the People's Commissar of Defence of the U.S.S.R.,Joseph Stalin (Moscow,July 28,1942)
"Peace is the dream of the wise;
War is the history of man."
Introduction:
The aim of this site is
to facilitate communication and engender educational awarenesses
of both contemporary and historical military and war art and
artists. Coverage is international. Armed forces personnel and
others have engaged in different forms of armed conflicts in
diverse situations throughout history. Such diverse locales
impell significant iconographical interests. Moreover information/contacts
generated directly or indirectly by this site will furnish opportunities
for cross-cultural and multidisciplinary studies. This in
turn will unquestionably stimulate opportunities for greater
understandings of cultural diversities and similarities.
Collections
Recent Literature/Documentation
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Current Official sponsorship of military art and artists
REVIEWS
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BIBLIOGRAPHIES
CHECKLISTS
MARINE
AVIATION
PHOTOGRAPHY
WAR FILM
ANTI-WAR
OFFICIAL CURRENT MILITARY/WAR ARTISTS
CULTURAL PROPERTY PROTECTION
MEMORIALS and MONUMENTS
PRISONER-OF-WAR ART
UNIFORMS
FLAGS
PRE-1914
WORLD WAR I
SPANISH CIVIL WAR,1936-1939
WORLD WAR II
VIETNAM Conflict 1961-1975
LINKS
Email: jgilinsky@oise.utoronto.ca
