Between the late 1940s and 1970s, the war genre fueled paperback novels, comics, and film with hundreds of titles. From the war propaganda and glorification of its combatants in the early years, to the markedly pacifist and anti-war discourses of the 1960s and 70s, and through the bipolar paranoia of the Cold War, the war genre has shown itself to be multifaceted in its approach, perspective, and treatment of war in all parts of the world. From ECC’s Frontline Combat and Warren’s Blazing Combat in the USA, Fleetway’s War Picture Library in the UK, to Toray’s Hazañas Bélicas and Ursus’ Zona de Combate in Spain, hundreds of titles flooded newsstands and comic book shops, captivating readers with their dynamic, vivid, and dramatic covers, creating a whole aesthetic and iconography within the war genre, which is the leitmotif of this collection.
As the Spanish philosopher George Santayana said in his work The Life of Reason, “Those who cannot remember the past are condemned to repeat it.” The war genre brings us closer to historical memory and teaches us not to look the other way in the face of one of the most savage, brutal, and destructive expressions of humankind, The war.
A Grave in Okinawa, The Figure.
- Reference: A Grave in Okinawa
- Marine of the US X Army. 1945
- Collection: Combat
- Sculptor: Marco Navas, The Miniaturist
- Material: High Quality Resin
- Measures: 2,75” Tall x 1,96” Width- 7cm Tall X 5cm Width
- Edition: Limited & Numbered to 100 figures
