Traduction de «war artist » (Anglais → Français) :

D. whereas such acts of destruction of cultural and historical sites and objects are not new and are not confined to Iraq and Syria and whereas according to UNESCO ‘cultural heritage is an important component of the cultural identity of communities, groups and individuals, and of social cohesion, so that its intentional destruction may have adverse consequences on human dignity and human rights’; whereas, according to UNESCO and others, the looting and smuggling of cultural and religious sites and objects in Iraq and Syria, in particular by ISIS/Da’esh, is being used to help fund ISIS/Da’esh’s terrorist activities, with the result that artistic and cultural goods ...[+++]are transformed into ‘war weapons’;

D. whereas such acts of destruction of cultural and historical sites and objects are not new and are not confined to Iraq and Syria; whereas, according to UNESCO, ‘cultural heritage is an important component of the cultural identity of communities, groups and individuals, and of social cohesion, so that its intentional destruction may have adverse consequences on human dignity and human rights’ ; stressing that, as stated by UNESCO and others, the product of looting and smuggling of cultural and religious sites and objects in Iraq and Syria by ISIS/Da’esh, is being used to help fund ISIS/Da’esh terrorist activities, with the result that artistic and cultural goods ...[+++]are becoming ‘war weapons’;

– having regard to the its resolution of 12 March 2015 on the annual report on human rights and democracy in the world 2013 and the EU policy on the matter of 12 March 2015, which states, in paragraph 211, that ‘intentional forms of destructions of cultural and artistic heritage, as it is currently occurring in Iraq and in Syria, should be prosecuted as war crimes and as crimes against humanity’,

Soon after, he travelled to Europe as an official war artist to record his artistic impressions of the Second World War.

Mr. Conn Smythe, the founder of the Maple Leafs in the NHL and a World War I prisoner of war and a World War II veteran, as well as F.W. Curzon, one of Canada's first war artists during the Northwest Rebellion, have something in common.

The artist, William Rothenstein, was born in Bradford, Yorkshire. He worked as an official war artist for the Canadian War Memorials Fund and he served as an official artist with the Canadian Army of Occupation in Germany from 1917 to 1920.