Representations of Violence: Art about the Sierra Leone Civil WarRuss Feingold, Abu-Hassan Koroma and Karin Wolf, Donald Cosentino, Sabine Mödersheim, Mathew J. Christensen, Jonathan A. Peters, Mariama Ross, Rebecca Golden, John D. Ogram, Akintunde Oyetade Twenty-First Century African Youth Movement, Inc., 2005 - 100 pagini This unprecedented exhibition of viscerally potent art focuses on how Sierra Leonean Artists have documented the atrocities of war and how these representations of violence spur conscious action. |
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... called upon the elders for advice . Their reactions echoed our concerns . They ranged from rage , " If you show this art you will be doing a disservice to your people , " to denial , " this is not the Africa I know , " to speechless ...
... called upon the elders for advice . Their reactions echoed our concerns . They ranged from rage , " If you show this art you will be doing a disservice to your people , " to denial , " this is not the Africa I know , " to speechless ...
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... called upon to relate the pain and suffering of the war rather than to valorize the warriors . In many of the artists ' statements , they express a need to bear witness . Partic- ular historical events are represented in the collection ...
... called upon to relate the pain and suffering of the war rather than to valorize the warriors . In many of the artists ' statements , they express a need to bear witness . Partic- ular historical events are represented in the collection ...
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... called , " the Soup Sweet Land . " Those sweet experiences made the nightmare that descended on Sierra Leone at century's end only that much more unbearable for those of us witnessing the unfolding catastrophes from the out- side . But ...
... called , " the Soup Sweet Land . " Those sweet experiences made the nightmare that descended on Sierra Leone at century's end only that much more unbearable for those of us witnessing the unfolding catastrophes from the out- side . But ...
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... called one of modern art's most powerful antiwar statements . Painted for the Span- ish Pavilion of the 1937 World Fair , the mural gives tes- timony of the bombing of the Basque village of Guernica in northern Spain , perpetrated by ...
... called one of modern art's most powerful antiwar statements . Painted for the Span- ish Pavilion of the 1937 World Fair , the mural gives tes- timony of the bombing of the Basque village of Guernica in northern Spain , perpetrated by ...
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... called The Horrors of War ( An Allegory showing the Effects of War ) ( after 1638 , Na- tional Gallery , London ) was commissioned by the Grand Duke of Tuscany . Rubens described it in a letter that he sent along with the painting ...
... called The Horrors of War ( An Allegory showing the Effects of War ) ( after 1638 , Na- tional Gallery , London ) was commissioned by the Grand Duke of Tuscany . Rubens described it in a letter that he sent along with the painting ...
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