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The British War Memorials Committee was a British Government body that throughout 1918 was responsible for the commissioning of artworks to create a memorial to the First World War. The Committee was formed in February 1918 when the Department of Information, which had been responsible for war-time propaganda and also operated a war artists scheme, became the Ministry of Information with Lord Beaverbrook as its Minister. Beaverbrook had been running, from London, the Canadian Government's scheme to commission contemporary art during the First World War and believed Britain would benefit from a similar project. Beaverbrook wanted the British War Memorials Committee to change the direction of Government sponsored art away from propaganda of short term value only during the conflict to a collection with a much longer lasting national value. Arnold Bennett, alongside Beaverbrook, was the driving force behind the BWMC and was instrumental in ensuring young artists, including those seen as modernist or avant-garde, were commissioned by the Committee over older British artists, many of whom were associated with the Royal Academy. ==Membership== The original members of the Committee were, ::: * Lord Rothermere, Chair of the BWMC, ::: * Alfred Yockney, former editor of The Art Journal and Secretary of the BWMC, ::: * Lord Beaverbrook, ::: * Arnold Bennett, ::: * Paul G Konody, art critic, ::: * Charles Masterman, ::: * Muirhead Bone, artist member, ::: * Robbie Ross, art advisor, ::: * Campbell Dodgson, art advisor, ::: * Thomas Derrick, art advisor, Also William Orpen and Henry Tonks also acted as advisors to the Committee.〔 抄文引用元・出典: フリー百科事典『 ウィキペディア（Wikipedia）』 ■ウィキペディアで「British War Memorials Committee」の詳細全文を読む スポンサード リンク
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