Evolution of war Graphics (Dissertation Project)
This project studies the trajectory of war art from 1937 and identifies the growing socio-political need of the time, along with the advancement in print and media technology contributed to the shift in society’s perception of war.
This further identifies and studies four key war graphic types: paintings, posters, comic books and cartoons, and photo-journalism, so as to gather the visual symbolisations that feeds into propaganda, and also broadly categorises individual war art genres into groups based on the subject focused by the artists.
The project consisted of each chapter represented by a book. Finally, all research spread across six books with each topic given individuality and scope for exploring as much detail as possible.
The project consists of six books. Each book represents a chapter.
The trajectory of war art is collectively referred to as evolution of war graphics by the project. The evolutions in terms of technology and ideology have together contributed to making war art a very powerful tool for propaganda. This project studies four types of war art genres namely paintings, posters, comic books and cartoons, and photographs and photojournalism. It uses the examples of these propaganda media through time to form the visual language for the end artefacts. The secondary research carried out for this project is presented in the form of individual catalogue presented below.
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