Organized by Mischa Gabowitsch and Jan Kusber, Johannes Gutenberg University Mainz, with generous support from the Georg Forster Forum
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conference brochure with abstracts and bios
All over the world, militaries have long acted as patrons of the arts. Individual generals have struck up friendships with painters, sculptors, and architects. Sketch artists and photographers have accompanied soldiers as embedded visual artists. Armies have created artistic programs and institutions such as the Grekov Studio in the Soviet Union and post-Soviet Russia, the Wehrmacht’s Squadron of Visual Artists, or the U.S. Army Combat Artists Program. Military patronage of the arts has resulted in a wide array of artistic products, ranging from drawings and paintings via small war memorials and soldiers‘ cemeteries to battlefield panoramas, equestrian statues, and military cathedrals. Militaries have also funded and produced music and dance performances as well as films and TV programs. Weiterlesen "12.-15.2.2025 | Tagung "Embedded: The Military as a Patron of the Arts. Part II""