Comments on: Military Woodblock Art

By: Edwin

Edwin — Fri, 15 May 2015 00:33:50 +0000

A study of these modern woodblock prints with a military perspective is worthy of a PhD thesis?

By: Scipio Americanus

Scipio Americanus — Thu, 14 May 2015 13:21:44 +0000

As Greer notes, these artists hadn’t themselves seen a modern battlefield. As we see from the beheading image they were hardly squeamish, so the lack of gore can presumably be chalked up to ignorance.

By: Exfernal

Exfernal — Thu, 14 May 2015 05:40:55 +0000

In these pretty pictures there is a conspicuous lack of effects of explosions up close, especially strewn around human innards, that would in reality often accompany modern battlefields.

By: A Boy and His Dog

A Boy and His Dog — Wed, 13 May 2015 09:30:59 +0000

There’s a print in the gallery of Chinese prisoners being beheaded that brings to mind the photo of Leonard Siffleet. That kind of prisoner beheading had a long history although the uyoku still deny it.