Dead Ground (Paperback)

After four years of remembering the 100th anniversary of the First World War, Paul Gough examines theaftermath of the war and the impact of terrain militaria on contemporary British and Australian painters,photographers and writers. Through a series of well-illustrated essays Gough explores how the devastatedterrain was rendered pictorially, how the vast emptiness of the deserted battlefields was recreated in paint andfilm, and how the dis-membered parts of the traumatised land and its peoples were re-membered. Drawingfrom recent travels across the Western Front, Gallipoli, and Macedonia, and site work in New York and London,Gough also explores the future of commemoration and the imagery of peace, and delves deeper into thepersisting visual cultures of war.