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A war imagined: Gallipoli and the art of children’s picture books
journal contribution
posted on 2023-05-19, 13:56 authored by Kerby, MC, Baguley, M, Abbey MacDonaldAbbey MacDonald, Lynch, ZThe artists and authors who produce children’s picture books dealing with the First World War, and Gallipoli in particular, find themselves burdened by the expectation that they will balance a respect for this foundation myth with a ‘pity of war’ approach more in line with modern attitudes to conflict. Whatever their personal ideology, to meet these expectations many of them embrace the thematic imperatives of those who have already painted and written about Australians at war: the increasingly sentimentalised construct of the Australian soldier as a victim of trauma, the providing of a moral lesson with many of the characteristics of a displaced Christianity and the traditional use of Australian war literature as an exercise in nation building.
History
Publication title
Australian Art EducationVolume
38Pagination
199-216ISSN
1032-1942Department/School
Faculty of EducationPublisher
Art Education Australia Inc.Place of publication
AustraliaRights statement
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