Portrait of an Army
- ISBN-10
- 0160310083
- ISBN-13
- 9780160310089
- Pages
- 179
- Language
- English
- Published
- 1991
- Publisher
- Center of Military History, United States Army
- Authors
- Center of Military History, Gordon R. Sullivan
Description
The Army Art Collection has over 10,000 pieces of art which, taken together, provide a wide-ranging visual record of the activities of the U.S. Army, with a clear emphasis on the human dimension of a soldier's life, both in peacetime and in war. Portrait of an Army is a representative selection of work from that collection. The focus of the volume, like that of the artists themselves, is on the composite reality captured in each image, and on the interplay between related images, regardless of chronology. The result is a portrait in its truest sense: a distilling of experience, as remembered in selected, telling details. But it is also a collective portrait, a commemoration of those successive generations of men and women who have served the Army and their country so well. --from publisher's description.
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