AU$25.00

ISBN: 0-855-33457-6

Publisher: Mitchell Beazley - 1982

Plot: On May 12, 1982, Linda Kitson departed Southampton port on the recently requisitioned QE2. There, she was virtually the only woman on board, travelling with three-thousand men on a fourteen-day journey that took her thirteen-thousand kilometres away from home. Her assignment had come as a commission from the Artistic Records Committee of the Imperial War Museum – making her the first officially commissioned female war artist. During her time on assignment, she produced roughly six drawings a day – typically using a combination of pen-and-ink, pencil and conté crayon. These illustrations are simple and are articulate – immediate and yet intimate. Unlike a journalist, photographer or camera crew – Kitson's marks don't tend to seek out sensationalist or dramatic moments. Instead, her work tends to focus on showing how people exist within their surroundings and the experiences that they might have shared together. These are unromantic scenes – images that form an authentic and distinctive portrait of the conflict.

Condition: Paperback shows only minor shelf wear; No writings or markings in text; Pages are clean and in excellent condition;