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Banksy : The Bristol Legacy Publication: April 2012 Banksy - The Verdict In the summer of 2009 Bristol saw a remarkable phenomenon that made international news. An estimated 300,000 people queued for hours, often in pouring rain, for admission to the city’s museum & art gallery. They had been attracted by the media hype surrounding an exhibition ambiguously entitled ‘Banksy vs the Bristol Museum’. There have been many celebratory books about Banksy, but this is the first non-partisan documentation of the Bristol event and an attempt to assess its local and wider impact. More than a dozen commentators, including art curators, historians, economists, journalists and local government managers, attempt to answer a raft of questions: Is Banksy a subversive influence or merely a bit of fun? Why is Banksy so important to Bristol? Are we dealing with art, ‘street art’ or graffiti? Where does the exhibition leave Bristol as an epicentre of ‘street art’? What was its economic impact? The book looks at the setting up of the show and questions the need - other than to conform to the required Banksy mystique - for secrecy. Bristol City Council took an unprecedented risk in allowing the Banksy team a free run of its galleries. The implications of this for future museum practice and for State encouragement of the popular arts are dealt with in detail. |
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council designated a run-down area of the inner city for a ‘street
art’ bonanza, inviting artists from around the world. The
book attempts to judge the success of that initiative. Finally,
a practising lawyer asks whether Banksy’s work can be given
‘listed building’ consent. Further information: John Sansom tel. 0117 9737207 e: johnsansom@aol.com Article: Banksy: Paul Gough : Painter, Polemicist, or Prankster? Banksy : The Bristol Legacy 160 pages with 100 illustrations, 245 x 170 mm mainly colour Softback £14.99 ISBN 978-1-906593-96-4 |
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| A Terrible
Beauty: British Artists in the First World War As war broke out across Europe in 1914 the Vorticist painter Wyndham Lewis advised: ‘You must not miss a war, if one is going! You cannot afford to miss that experience’. He may have been playfully ironic, but he recognised that the Great War presented a set of complex challenges, that might make or break reputations at a critical juncture in British art. Many artists, poets and writers have had to live with the uncomfortable recognition that conflict fuels their muse, invigorating the imagination and honing their creativity. This book explores a diverse group of those artists and their work, from the conservative draughtsmanship of Scottish etcher Muirhead Bone to the irreverent angularity of the young gunner William Roberts; from the publicity-soaked antics of Richard Nevinson to the deluded ambitions of Sir William Orpen. In it, Paul Gough examines the work of those who were made famous by the war, and those whose reputations were almost irretrievably damaged. He explores in detail the wartime lives of fifteen artists - many of whom saw active service - who are central to the way we now visualize the War on the Western Front and on more distant battlefields in Macedonia and Gallipoli. A Terrible Beauty: British Artists in the First World War 256 pages, 120 illustrations, Sansom & Company, (2010) ISBN-10: 1906593000 / ISBN-13: 978-1906593001 |
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Stanley Spencer : Journey to Burghclere
Paul Gough tells the story of Stanley Spencer's journey from cosseted family life in Cookham, through the menial drudgery of a war hospital and the malarial battlefields of a forgotten front, to his unique visions of peace and ressurection in Burghclere.
Using his own letters, illustrations and paintings the book locates Spencer's work alongside other soldier-artists of the time and shows how his war experiences of 'innocence, fall and redemption' derived from his personal story as 'orderly, soldier and patient'.
Stanley Spencer : Journey to Burghclere
208 pages with 65 colour and b&w illustrations, Sansom & Company (2006)
ISBN-10: 1904537464 / ISBN-13: 978-1904537465
On-line Papers
Gough, P.J., (2009) ‘Calculating the future’ – panoramic sketching, reconnaissance drawing and the material trace of war, in Saunders, N and Cornish, P. (eds.) Contested Objects: Material Memories of the Great War, Routledge, pp. 237-251, London, 2009.
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Gough, P.J., (2009) "Garden of Gratitude’: the National Memorial Arboretum and strategic remembering,'
People and their Pasts: Public History Today, editors Hilda Kean and Paul Ashton, Palgrave, 2009
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Gough, P.J., (2008) ‘Exactitude is truth’: representing the British military through commissioned artworks’, Journal of War and Culture Studies Vol. 1 No.3, pp.341-356, 5 colour illustrations, 2008
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Gough, P.J., (2008) ‘Commemoration of War’, in Graham. B. and Howard, P. (eds.) The Ashgate Research Companion to Heritage and Identity (London: Ashgate) p.323-347, 2008
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Gough, P.J., (2007) ‘Peace in ruins - the value of mementoes, temporary shrines and floral tributes as markers of public sphere’ in Harutyunyan, A. Horschelmann, K. and Miles, M. (eds.) 'Public Arts after Socialism', Intellect, 2007.
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Gough, P.J., (2007) ‘Contested memories: contested site’: Newfoundland and its unique heritage on the Western Front in The Round Table The Commonwealth Journal of International Affairs :special issue: Remembrance and Commemoration in Commonwealth States, no. 393, ISSN 1474-029, pp.693-705. 5 B & W illustrations, 2007
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Gough, P.J., (2007) ‘Fault lines: Four short observations on places of peace, trauma and contested remembrance'
- Journal of Visual Art Practice , Volume 5 Number 1 2006
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Gough, P.J., (2006) 'Insurrection: Resurrection: reviving the dead in the work of Stanley Spencer, Otto Dix and Jeff Wall'
- Constructions of Death, Mourning, and Memory Conference, WAPACC Organization, New Jersey, USA, October 27-29, 2006
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Gough, P.J., (2006) '3rd University College London/Imperial War Museum Conference on Materialities and Cultural Memory of 20th Century Conflict'
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Gough, P.J., (2004) 'Corporations and commemoration – First World War remembrance, Lloyds TSB and the National Memorial Arboretum'
- International Journal of Heritage Studies, Winter, 2004
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Gough, P.J. and Morgan, S.J. (2004) 'Manipulating the Metonymic : the politics of civic identity and the Bristol Cenotaph, 1919 – 1932'
- Journal of Historical Geography, October 2004 (in press)
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Gough, P.J. (2004) 'Sites in the imagination: the Beaumont Hamel Newfoundland Memorial on the Somme'
- Cultural Geographies, 11, pp.235-258.
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Gough, P.J. (2003) 'Can Peace be Set in Stone?'
- Times Higher Education Supplement 4th April 2003, pp. 18-19
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Gough, P.J. (2002) 'Invicta pax' Monuments, Memorials and peace:An Analysis of the Canadian Peacekeeping Monument, Ottawa.'
- International Journal of Heritage Studies', 8, 3. pp.201-223, 8 b & w illus., ISSN 1352-7258.
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Gough, P.J. (2002) 'Peacekeeping, Peace, Memorialization:Reflections on the shifting status of the Peacekeeping Memorial in Ottawa'
- Canadian Military History, Winter 2002/2003, 11, 3,. pp. 65-74, 9 b & w illus ISSN 1195-8472
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Paul Gough ‘Dead Lines : The art of war’
- Printmaking Today, Vol.11, No.3, Autumn 2002
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Gough, P.J. (2001) 'Horizontal Man'
- Essay published in the catalogue 'Loci Memoriae', printed in an edition of 1,000 copies to coincide with 'Loci Memoriae' - a project of writing, artwork and web design on the themes of commemoration, monuments and other acts of oblivia Bristol, November 11th, 2001.
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Gough, P.J. (2001) 'Holy Relics: Venerated Detritus'
essay to coincide with ‘Loci memoriae’ - Bristol 2001,
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Gough P.J. ‘Through the wrong end of the telescope’ : Military Drawing and British War artists, 1914 – 1918’
- in 'Peindre la Grande Guerre 1914 – 1918', Cahiers d’etudes et de recherches du Musee de’l’Armee Paris 2001, 97 – 111, 4 b & w illus, ISBN 2-901418-260
Gough, P.J. 'Landscapes of War (and Peace)'
- in 'Monuments and the Millennium', James and James / English Heritage, 2001, 228 - 236, 4 x b and w illus. ISBN 1-873936 - 97 – 4.
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Gough, P.J. ‘Modernism and Monumentalism: Canada’s part in the development of memorial architecture’
- in Canadian Military History since the 17th century (ed. Yves Trembley) pp.507 – 511. Proceedings of the Canadian Military History Conference, Ottawa, 5 – 9 May, 2000, published by Directorate of History and Heritage, Canada
Gough, P.J. (2003) 'From Heroes' Groves to Parks of Peace: landscapes of remembrance, protest and peace.'
- Landscape Research , 25, 2, pp 213 - 229, 8 b & w illus., ISSN 0142 – 6397.
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Gough, P.J. (1998) 'Deadlines: Codefied Drawing and Scopic Vision in Hostile Space'
- A version of this paper first appeared in POINT, Journal of CHEAD, winter 1998 ISSN 1360-3477, pp 34-41
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Gough, P.J. (2002) 'War Memorial Gardens as Dramaturgical Space'
- International Journal of Heritage Studies, Vol. 3 No. 4 pp 199 - 214, 16 b & w illus. plus cover, ISSN 1352 – 7258.
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Gough, P.J. (2001) 'A War of Imagination': The Experiences of British Artists in Two World Wars'
- A version of this paper first appeared as a chapter in 'Lightning Strikes Twice', edited by Peter Liddle, published by Leo Cooper, London, 200, ISBN 0 004724 54 2
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Gough, P.J. (1996) 'Canada, Conflict and Commemoration: An Appraisal of the new Canadian War Memorial'
- Canadian Military History, Canadian War Museum/Wilfred Laurier University Centre for Military Strategic and Disarmament Studies, 5, 1, pp 26 - 34, 1 col, 8 b & w illus, ISSN 1195 – 8472
Gough, P.J. 'An Epic of Mud': Artistic Interpretations of Third Ypres,
- in 'Passchendaele in Perspective: the 3rd Battle of Ypres', editor Peter Liddle, chapter 25, 4 b & w illus, Leo Cooper, 1997
Gough, P.J. (1996) 'Conifers and Commemoration: The Politics and Protocol of Planting in Military Cemeteries'
- Landscape Research, 21, 1, pp 73 - 87, 10 b & w illus. and front cover, ISSN 0142 – 6397
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Gough, P.J. 'The Experience of British Artists in the Great War, in Facing Armageddon: The Great War Experienced'
- editors Peter Liddle and Hugh Cecil, Pen and Sword/Leo Cooper, 1996, ISBN 0 –850525063
Gough, P.J. (1998) 'UPAS : the tree of death'
- catalogue essay, 1995
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Gough, P.J. (1995) 'A Question Of Authenticity: 'Faking Death In No-Man's Land'
- Essay for Caffeine newspaper, 1995
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Gough, P.J. (1998) 'The Avenue of War'
- Journal of the Landscape Research Group, 18, 2, 15 b & w illus. pp 78 - 90, ISSN 0142-6397
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Gough, P.J. (1995) 'Tales from the Bushy-topped Tree': A Brief Survey of Military Sketching'
- Imperial War Museum Review No. 10, November 1995, pp 62 - 73, 7 b & w, 4 colour illus. Imperial War Museum/Leo Cooper, ISBN 1 870423 19 4
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Gough, P.J. (1994) ‘The Tyranny of Seeing: Peter Howson’
- Bosnian War Artist, Art Review, November 1994
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Gough, P.J. (1993) 'The Empty Battlefield: Painters and the First World War'
- Imperial War Museum Review, no.8, Imperial War Museum/Leo Cooper, 1993, 4 b & w, 4 colour illus. pp. 38 - 47, ISBN 0-901627-99-2
Selected conference papers:
‘Cultivating the moral high ground’, National Memorial Arboretum / Royal British Legion symposia on Remembrance, Commemoration and Memorials, Staffordshire (11 February 2010)
"Gathering information" soldier-artists, sketchbooks and surveillance on the Western Front, 'Collecting War: Trench Art, Souvenirs - manufacture and representation, In Flanders Fields Museum, Ypres, Belgium, 17 - 19 April 2009.
‘Best we forget?’ Construction, reconstruction and re-enactment on battlefields of the British Empire, ‘Scars’ conference, Group for War and Cultural Studies, University of Bristol, 24 March 2009
'Contested Remembrance’, Doing Justice to the Land, MB Reckitt Trust Conference, St Paul’s Cathedral, London, 24 February 2009
‘Recreated on canvas’: the role of battlefield art as a commemorative medium’, The Archaeology of Contemporary Commemoration, Theoretical Archaeology Group (TAG) conference, University of Southampton, 15 - 17 December 2008.
‘Calculating the future’ – panoramic sketching, reconnaissance drawing and the material trace of war'
- Conflict, Memory and material culture: the Great War 1914-2004, The Second University College London/Imperial War Museum Conference on Materialities and Cultural Memory of 20th-Century Conflict, Imperial War Museum, London (11th September 2004)
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'The body heroic: representations of event and historical exactitude in the work of the official regimental artist'
- The Body at War: Somatic Cartographies of Western Warfare in the Nineteenth and Twentieth Centuries, Group for War and Cultural Studies, 8th Annual Conference, University of Westminster, London (25th -26th June 2004)
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‘The challenge of representing ‘Peace’ in sculptural form’
- Fourth National Public History Conference, Ruskin College, Oxford (26 April 2003)
‘Creating communities of peace, protest and intervention’
- War, Communities and Visual Culture, 29th annual conference, Association of Art Historians, UCL and Birkbeck College (11-13th April 2003)
‘Rob all my comrades’– the Pictorial Value of the Front-line Medical Orderly and Stretcher Bearer in the Iconography of the Western Front
- ‘War, Art and Medicine’ conference University College, London / National Portrait Gallery, London, (8 - 9 November 2002). Also, panel member with John Keane (1991 Gulf War artist) and BBC news reporter Kate Adie)
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‘Public art and corporate patronage: a case study’
- Legible Cities conference, Bristol (with Iain Biggs/Stuart Clamp) (3rd April, 2003)
'Artistic records’ - the Regimental Artist, Historical Narrative and Hidden Commemoration'
- War and Visual Culture in 20th Century Europe, Group for War and Culture Studies, Westminster University, Stirling University (20 April 2002)
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‘Theatres of remembrance remembering the Western Front’
- Second National Public History Conference, Ruskin College, Oxford (12 May 2001)
'Forgive and Forget: the Case against Remembrance Sunday'
Public History Now, First National Conference, Ruskin College, Oxford (20 May 2000)
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‘Modernism and Monumentalism: Canada’s part in the development of a memorial architecture’
- Canadian Military History Conference, University of Ottawa, Canada (5 - 9 May 2000)
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‘Representations of a war’
- 'War and Conflict in 20th century Ireland' conference, Ulster Museum, Belfast (4 February 2000)
‘Unknown Warrior: over-known princess: mass mourning in London’
- Cross Currents Conference, Exeter Phoenix Arts (13 - 14 March 1999)
‘War through the wrong end of the telescope’
- IAMA Symposium on War Art, Musee de L’ Armee, Invalides, Paris (15 - 18 November 1998)
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