A war imagined: Gallipoli and the art of children's picture books
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Article Title | A war imagined: Gallipoli and the art of children's picture books |
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ERA Journal ID | 9873 |
Article Category | Article |
Authors | Kerby, Martin C. (Author), Baguley, Margaret (Author), MacDonald, Abbey (Author) and Lynch, Zoe (Author) |
Journal Title | Australian Art Education |
Journal Citation | 38 (1), pp. 199-216 |
Number of Pages | 18 |
Year | 2017 |
Publisher | Australian Art Education |
Place of Publication | Paddington, NSW, Australia |
ISSN | 1032-1942 |
Web Address (URL) | https://search.informit.org/doi/10.3316/INFORMIT.265158572010907 |
Abstract | The artists and authors who produce children's picture books dealing with the First World War, and Gallipoli in particular, find themselves burdened by the expectation that they will balance a respect for this foundation myth with a 'pity of war' approach more in line with modern attitudes to conflict. Whatever their personal ideology, to meet these expectations many of them embrace the thematic imperatives of those who have already painted and written about Australians at war: the increasingly sentimentalised construct of the Australian soldier as a victim of trauma, the providing of a moral lesson with many of the characteristics of a displaced Christianity and the traditional use of Australian war literature as an exercise in nation building. |
Keywords | Anzac day, children’s literature, First World War, Gallipoli, picture books |
ANZSRC Field of Research 2020 | 369999. Other creative arts and writing not elsewhere classified |
360602. Fine arts | |
390101. Creative arts, media and communication curriculum and pedagogy | |
Public Notes | © Art Education Australia. |
Byline Affiliations | School of Teacher Education and Early Childhood |
School of Linguistics, Adult and Specialist Education | |
University of Tasmania | |
Office for the Advancement of Learning and Teaching | |
Institution of Origin | University of Southern Queensland |
https://research.usq.edu.au/item/q480w/a-war-imagined-gallipoli-and-the-art-of-children-s-picture-books
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