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Laura Brandon

Historian, Art and War, Canadian War Museum (1992-2015); Research Associate, Canadian War Museum (2015-)

Author of Pegi by Herself: The Life of Pegi Nicol MacLeod, Canadian Artist (2005); Art or Memorial? The Forgotten History of Canada's War Art (2006); Art and War (2007)

Upcoming lectures, cv, and blog; www.laurabrandon.ca
Phone: (1) 613 237 1689

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Canadian Military History, 2017

This is a truly encyclopedic survey of artists' responses - both 'official' and perso... more This is a truly encyclopedic survey of artists' responses - both 'official' and personal - to 'the horrors of war'. "Art and War" reveals the sheer diversity of artists' portrayals of this most devastating aspect of the human condition - from the 'heroic' paintings of Benjamin West and John Singer Sargent to brutal and iconic works by artists from Goya to Picasso, and the equally oppositional work of Leon Golub, Nancy Spero and others who reacted with fury to the Vietnam War. Laura Brandon pays particular attention to work produced in response to World War I and World War II, as well as to more recent art and memorial work by artists as diverse as Barbara Kruger, Alfredo Jarr and Maya Lin. She looks finally to the reactions of contemporary artists such as Langlands and Bell to the US invasion in 2001 of Afghanistan and the 'War on Terror'.

Canadian Military History, 2012

W hat did Canadian enlisted artists do if they did not become official war artists during the Sec... more W hat did Canadian enlisted artists do if they did not become official war artists during the Second World War? The military career of Guelph, Ontario, artist Evan Macdonald (1905-1972) is a case in point. A well-respected Ontario painter and illustrator, Macdonald trained in Toronto at what is now the Ontario College of Art (1923) and in London, England, at the Chelsea Polytechnic, the Putney School of Art, and the Royal Academy Schools (1926-1931). After his return to Canada in 1931, Macdonald worked for eight years as a commercial artist and illustrator in Toronto before returning, upon the death of his father, to Guelph to run the family department store, D.E. Macdonald Brothers. 1

The Encyclopedia of War, 2011

... French emperor Napoleon III's former official photographer (and a trained painter) Gusta... more ... French emperor Napoleon III's former official photographer (and a trained painter) Gustave Le Gray's (1820–1884) celebrated 1860 pictures of Giuseppe ... Huynh Cong (Nick) Ut (b. 1951) took the now-famous 1972 image of a naked young Vietnamese girl fleeing a napalm attack ...