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Camera technology, its limitations and its impact on the work of the Army Film and Photographic Unit, 1941-1945
Full text linkCreated as part of a wider strategy to tackle the ‘morale crisis’ that the British Army believed itself to be experiencing between 1940-1942, the Army Film and Photographic Unit was intended to counter German propaganda by producing images of battle, and it was hoped, British military success. Doing so however, proved easier said than done. Using the testimony of the men behind the camera, this article examines the limitations that technology imposed on the unit’s work. It concludes by exploring the solutions the cameramen employed including shooting images of prisoners and of the dead and the production of staged material
Aesthetic Revenants and the Neo-Decadent Afterlife of Vernon Lee
Full text linkAnglo-Italian author Vernon Lee (1856-1935) and Italian poet Gabriele D’Annunzio (1863-1938) shared a style of writing which has been described by Emily Anne Rabiner in The Decadent Renaissance: The Antimodern Seductions of Gabriele D’Annunzio and Vernon Lee as ‘Decadent Renaissance: a revival of, or a neo-Renaissance approach to aesthetics and sexuality’ (Rabiner, 2024). This revival of Renaissance symbolism is used by Lee, particularly in her fantastic tales to enable embodied and erotic encounters with the past. This article examines Lee’s use of the Decadent Renaissance in ‘Prince Alberic and the Snake Lady’, first published in The Yellow Book in 1896, and extends this premise to investigate how the Renaissance revival style works when transposed into a twenty-first century neo-decadent mystery novel, such as Mary F. Burns’s The Unicorn in the Mirror
Killing to commemorate, dying to remember? Authenticity and the practice of memory in Isonzo
Full text linkFirst World War video-games have grown in importance and popularity since the centenary of 2014-18. But what does it mean to both develop and play these games? What vision of history is being constructed or transmitted between developers and players? Drawing on interviews with both these groups, this article examines the game Isonzo set on the Italian Front – an unfamiliar setting to most in the anglosphere – to explore the constructions of memory and historical meaning which the game produces
Subterranean Cosmic Dreaming Part 2: Creating a Museum of Futurology
Full text link‘Subterranean Cosmic Dreaming Part 2’ is a film-assemblage that explores aspects of the experiences, images, and collective dreaming that unfolded in the process of creating a ‘temporary wild museum of futurology’ on the shores of the Thames at Shoeburyness, as part of the Estuary Festival Associated Programme 2021. As Art Psychotherapists, guided by a posthuman, new materialist perspective and trusting art as a process of inquiry we move towards deepening our understanding of materiality, time, space, and place in a process of diffraction as a form of critical consciousness (Barad, 2007).
Artwork in the form of a Film accessed on YouTube: Subterranean Cosmic Dreaming Part
Shark! (English version)
No full textA story in pictures from art therapy in paediatric oncologyPictures by Marco, words by Ulrike HoltermannFig.1: Marco: "Hai!"(SHARK!), white paint pen on postcard, DIN A4
Stay Alive
Full text linkStay Alive was made on placement as a trainee art therapist with a National Health Service (NHS) Arts Therapies team, at an acute adult Mental Health unit in a diverse London borough. The drawing was a visual response to attending patient review meetings with families and representatives from the multidisciplinary and community teams, present both in-person and remotely
The Legacy of the Boer War: British Army Procurement and Logistics before 1914
Full text linkStrategy, battles and tactics may win wars but the inability to prosecute them ends in defeat. The First World War illustrates how the capacity to produce arms and materiel efficiently dictates the ultimate outcome. The British experience in the decade prior to 1914 is an interesting one. This article examines problems arising from the British Army’s experiences in the Boer War; subsequent enquiries and some of the lessons learnt ‒ and forgotten ‒ over the pre-war decades. It was this environment which explains the often forgotten logistics weaknesses that threatened the British Army’s fighting capacity in 1914
Casualties of War: 1/1 Bucks Battalion, 1915-1919
Full text linkThe handful of surviving British army ‘casualty books’ from the Great War are not only a unique source for quantifying the wartime integrity of units but also of answering such additional questions as the incidence and type of disciplinary offences. Equally, the extent of disease and illness can also be determined as well as leave policies and the impact on battalions of secondments, temporary attachments and attendance at training courses. An analysis of the casualty books of 1/1 Bucks Battalion whilst serving on the Western Front and in Italy provide a microcosm of the internal dynamics of a wartime battalion