Art and the Second World War

The previous century was defined by two world wars. While the first, the Great War, has been culturally examined in huge detail and its literature, especially the poetry, minutely and endlessly discussed, the Second World War has been treated differently. Studies of its military, political, social, economic and many other aspects are legion, but its cultural manifestations are less well-served. The war did produce a literature worth reading and studying, and has continued to do so ever since, but it also produced much visual art which has often remained under-valued if not actually unknown or ignored: it is suggested here...