The Deployment of Art: The Imperial War Museum's Artistic Records Committee, 1969-1982

by Clare Carolin

This book explores the Artistic Records Committee (ARC) of the Imperial War Museum (IWM) as a bureaucratic mechanism that enabled the deployment of art as an instrument of war.

The ARC was established in 1972 to commission artistic records of activities involving British Armed Forces (BAF) deployed in the North of Ireland. Through a close reading of artworks, archival research, and interviews with artists, former IWM staff, and a former British...

• Format: Hardcover
• Language: English
• ISBN: 1032209380
• ISBN13: 9781032209388
• Release Date: February 2025
• Publisher: Routledge
• Length: 296 Pages