Landscapes of War in Edward Ardizzone’s Illustrated Diaries. The Political and Pictorial Landscapes of WWII

My research is focused on Edward Ardizzone’s WWII war-scapes, more precisely his detailed textual descriptions and pictorial representations (sketches and water wash images) introduced in the illustrated manuscripts of his diaries (1943-45) and the published edition of this autobiographical narrative: Diary of a War Artist (1974). Using an interdisciplinary perspective, my research is aimed at identifying the textual and visual strategies explored by Ardizzone to describe within his illustrated diaries his subjective experiences of war. As I discovered through my research in Ardizzone’s archives at the Imperial War Museum in London, his written testimonials of what he witnessed during WWII,…