Edward Bawden In The Middle East

By Nigel Weaver

Subjects: Marsh Arabs in art, Iraqis in art, World war, 1939-1945, art and the war, World War, 1939-1945, Marsh Arabs, Iraqis, Great Britain. War Artists' Advisory Committee, Arabs, Art, middle eastern, In art, Art and the war, Great Britain

Description: "This book brings together forty-five of Edward Bawden's watercolours from World War II, now housed in the Imperial War Museum collection and many published here for the first time, to produce a fascinating insight into Bawden's view of the Middle East. Alongside these evocative images the text traces Bawden's life and career, in particular his time as an Official War Artist; a chapter by Robin O'Neill sets the political context in which the allied forces and Bawden found themselves during the war, and sketches the drastically changed political scenery since then; finally, we hear from Bawden in his own words through two articles originally published in The Geographical Magazine in 1945"--Jacket.