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Re: art of war

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Susan Bennett (sbennett)
Sat, 30 Oct 1999 08:53:56 -0400

The other night on one of the news programs I watch, I saw Dr. Seuss's wife
discussing the cartooning Dr. Seuss did during his service in WW2. There has
been a book publsidhed of these works. Unfortunatel;y I do not remember the
title. Susan in Ohio
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From: Cara Halbirt <carah>
To: artsednet.edu <artsednet.edu>
Date: Wednesday, October 20, 1999 11:35 PM
Subject: Re: art of war

>Donalyn,
>
>Goya would be a wonderful choice. The Third of May is just stunning. I
also
>like: Delacroix's Liberty Leading the People, David's The Oath of the
>Horatii, or maybe even the Death of Marat, West's Death of General Wolfe,
>Jacques Callot did a series of etchings called the Miseries of War (these
>are considered the first realistic, pictorial record of the human tragedy
of
>war. And don't forget the war memorials: Arch of Titus, Arch of
Constantine,
>Column of Trajan, many other Roman and Greek friezes address battle and
more
>recently there's Ernst Barlach's War Monument. I don't know exactly what
>you have in mind, but maybe this will help. I found a lot of this in my
>Gardner's Art Through the Ages books, online they're at:
>http://www.harbrace.com/art/gardner/
>
>Cara
>
>