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Dramatists, poets, and novelists write about the futility of war. Agnes Moorehead, Michael Tolan, and Tim O'Connor recite works by Aristophanes, Herman Melville, Stephen Crane, Walt Whitman, and Luigi Pirandello on this episode of Camera Three.

In this book, there is a comprehensive visual, cultural, and historical account of the ways in which armed conflict has been represented by artists. Covering the last two centuries, from the Crimean War to the present day, the book shows how the artistic portrayal of war has changed, from a celebration of heroic exploits to a more modern, troubled, and perhaps truthful depiction of warfare and its consequences. It investigates broad patterns as well...

"All wars are fought twice, the first time on the battlefield, the second time in memory. Exploring how this troubled memory works in Vietnam, the United States, Laos, Cambodia, and South Korea, the book deals specifically with the Vietnam War and also war in general. He reveals how war is a part of our identity, as individuals and as citizens of nations armed to the teeth. Venturing through literature, film, monuments, memorials, museums, and landscapes...

"C.R.W. Nevinson (1889-1946) was one of the most important, colourful and talked about artists of his generation, in an era that included close friends Mark Gertler and Dora Carrington, and adversary Wyndham Lewis. In the turbulent days of pre-World War I London, Nevinson gained notoriety as England's only Futurist; but his celebrity and legacy to early twentieth-century art history was to be dependent on the war itself, during which he produced some...