At the
Mori Art Museum…
Guide: The sketches are reports
of the war in mainly in pen or pencil. Some
are in watercolor. Many are portraits serving as identity photos to be passed
back to the family if they were killed.
Visitor: It’s amazing they
could sketch out on the battlefield.
Guide: They regarded
themselves as activists, as artist-soldiers. They had their role to fill. They
wanted to leave a record. Art as activism.
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Voice-over
These are artists who are
not engaging in “art for art’s sake”. This is art pressed into service. The
pictures are reports from the front.
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