Carl Miller on The War Dead and Wounded
17 January - 43 mins
Podcast Series
Conflict of Interest
What did artists and photographers choose to show us of the horrors of the front line? And how did Governments seek to curb what its citizens could see?
Carl Miller (The Kill List) travels from the trenches of France to modern day Iraq, via the paintings and photography on display at the Blavtnik Art, Film and Photography Galleries at Imperial War Museum, London.
Guiding Carl’s journey is Claire Brennard, Art Curator at IWM London, and Professor Ana Carden-Coyne, Director of the Centre for the Cultural History of War in Manchester - encountering artistic works that have rarely been seen by the public.
Objects Discussed:
John Singer Sargent, Gassed, 1919
Christopher Richard Wynne...
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