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Graphic reports from the modern wars in Afghanistan
25.1.2011 Ballpoint Memories from Afghanistan The English Russia blog presents an anonymous Ballpoint Soldier: “He was on a few wars, in Afghanistan, in Tajikistan and then in Chechnya. He got in real battles and lost many of his friends in action, that´s a true story true soldier. Everywhere he went he took one thing with […]
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Algerian Guerrilla War II: Les Portes de fer – The Iron Gates of Subjugation
Pictorial Reports from the Algerian Guerrilla War II After a series of devastating defeats against the insurgent Arab militias led by Abd el-Kader, the French tried to gain valuable time through the Treaty of Tafna to consolidate their military. The agreement, concluded in May 1837, granted Abd el- Kader sovereignty over the largest part of […]
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Journal de L’expédition des Portes De Fer (1839 – 44)
The well-known writer and literary critic Charles Nodier, who was a close friend of the Duc d´Orleans, who had died shortly beforehand, was responsible for the text. The illustration work featured three of the most prominent exponents of artistic Orientalism, the two painters Adrien Dauzats and Gabriele Descamps and draughtsman Auguste Raffet. But the work […]
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Algerian Guerrilla War I : Auguste Raffet & Horace Vernet – Pictures of Dynamized Masses and the Art of Reconstruction
Pictorial Reports from the Algerian Guerrilla War I The occupation of Algeria was initiated by Charles X in June 1830 with the capture of Algiers, just a few weeks before the collapse of the Bourbon Restoration regime. At first, the bourgeois July Monarchy under Louis-Philippe had a bit of a hard time warming to this […]
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Retraite De Constantine / Prise De Constantine
“Retraite de Constantine” was one of the most widespread examples of Auguste Raffet´s series of annual lithography albums. It was published in spring of 1837 by Gilhaut Freres and gives an account of the first failed attempts at conquering the Algerian fortress. The ignominious retreat of the French army in November 1836 was mainly blamed […]
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Das Grauen, das aus Archiven kommt : “Kriegszeit” in Stuttgart (Ausstellungsbesprechnung)
Not translated: Offensichtlich wurde diese Kriegs – Ausstellung der Staatsgalerie Stuttgart um das reichhaltige Konvolut von exzellenten Grafiken und Originalzeichnungen von Käthe Kollwitz herum konzipiert, das sich in der hauseigenen Sammlung befindet. Mehr als ein Drittel der Ausstellungsfläche ist ihrem Werk gewidmet; darunter befinden sich auch die beiden grafischen Zyklen Ein Weberaufstand (1897) und Bauernkrieg […]
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Me too in Verdun # 3 – On the Views and Drawings of the War Traveller Goethe.
3) Verdun revisited In the circles of specialists in German studies, the political Goethe is regarded as “difficult”. His ambitions in this regard are often treated as fringe problem zones that can be neglected within the monumental, aesthetic whole comprised of creative writing and natural science, which one is accustomed to admiring him for. What […]
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Me too in Verdun # 2 – On the Views and Drawings of the War Traveller Goethe.
II) The Old Empire Strikes Back Just a few months after the disastrous end of the campaign against France, Goethe once again functioned as a monarchist campaign propagandist – this time in putting down the Mainzer Republik, the first democratic state on German soil, which had been established with the support of the French revolutionary […]
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Me too in Verdun # 1. On the Views and Drawings of the War Traveller Goethe.
I) The Campaign Against the New Insanity Was Goethe a war artist? The first section of the three-part historical essay, which sheds light on the drawing activities of the poet in connection with his political endeavours, focuses on his participation in the campaign of the monarchist First Coalition against revolutionary France in 1792. Only thirty […]
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Burning Cetewayo´s house and other incidents of the British Zulu-War
– encounter with a Zulu – punitive expedition – death of the Prince Imperial – Special Artists setting fire on a Kraal – the corpse of the Prince Imperial- Queen Victoria´s return from the Highlands in mourning – in search of King Cetewayo – the pursuit of Cetewayo – Cetewayo´s treasures – ambassadors from King […]