2/25/2023 0 Comments World at war![]() ![]() Amazon has over 10,000 books for sale on the 1914-1918 war alone, ranging across concise histories, complete histories, and alternate histories. ![]() ![]() Each has been studied separately and in great depth. Over a century has passed since the end of World War One World War Two ended seventy-five years ago. Jeremy Black’s The World at War could have been a superb rendering of an important topic, but it suffers from too much foreshortening and omission to be of much value to a contemporary reader seeking a deeper understanding of the World Wars. The resultant picture-portrait or landscape-must be judged on its overall effect, considering not only what it includes, but equally what it excludes. Both create effects that help compose the work and establish context however, they do so through manipulation and omission. ![]() Chiaroscuro involves the use of variations in light and dark to indicate depth. Foreshortening is a technique that allows the viewer to perceive dimensionality but does so at the expense of detail. Perspective, to take but one example, is essential. The author qua artist is accountable not only for their choice of subject, but also for its treatment. It involves a great deal of subjective judgment and interpretation. ![]()
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