Imagined Battles: Reflections of War in European Art

by Peter Paret

Book Overview

For thousands of years, art has interpreted the experience of war--its methods, human costs, and moral ambiguities--and has offered historians a wealth of testimony that is only beginning to be systematically explored. In this wide-ranging study, Peter Paret discusses forty-seven paintings and prints as complex documents of war in Europe since the Renaissance and as examples of the artist's use of war as a metaphor for the human condition. The images...

• Format: Hardcover
• Language: English
• ISBN: 0807823562
• ISBN13: 9780807823569
• Release Date: September 1997
• Publisher: University of North Carolina Press
• Length: 144 Pages
• Weight: 2.00 lbs.
• Dimensions: 0.7" x 6.1" x 9.3"