Congratulations to Margaret Hutchison and Steven Trout for the publication of ‘Portraits of Remembrance: Painting, Memory and the First World War’

Congratulations to Margaret Hutchison and Steven Trout for the publication of edited collection Portraits of Remembrance: Painting, Memory and the First World War (University of Alabama Press, 2020). The book examines the relationship between war painting and collective memory in Australia, Austria, Belgium, Canada, Croatia, France, Germany, Great Britain, New Zealand, Russia, Serbia, Turkey, and the United States. Contribu­tors raise a host of topics in connection with the volume’s overarching focus on memory, including national identity, constructions of gender, historical accuracy, issues of aesthetic taste, and connections between painting and literature, as well as other cultural forms. 

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