Sue Malvern

Memorizing the Great War: Stanley Spencer at Burghclere

The Chapel of All Saints, Burghclere, is decorated with a narrative series of war paintings (eight panels each with a matching predella, two panoramas and an end-wall Resurrection scene), and was completed by the British artist Stanley Spencer between 1926 and 1932. This article analyses the Chapel within two intersecting frames of reference — as part of a tradition for war memoirs by veterans and as an example of war memorial iconography in Britain in the inter-war years. Whereas the meaning of the Chapel is usually read as one which resolves the Great War into a matter of resurrection and redemption, I argue that the series is a paradoxical and indeterminate narrative intended for diverse audiences.

The End of Innocence

Books reviewed in this article: Jonathan Fineberg The Innocent Eye: Children’s Art and the Modern Artist Jonathan Fineberg Discovering Child Art. Essays on Childhood, Primitivism and Modernism

Virtuous and Vulgar Feminisms

Amelia Jones Sexual Politics. Judy Chicago’s Dinner Party in Feminist Art History M. Catherine de Zegher Inside the Visible: an elliptical traverse of 20th century art. in, of, and from the feminine