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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... feel very fortunate to have embarked on this undertaking with the support of the Wisconsin Humanities Council . The enthusiasm with which we began this mission . belied a realistic timeline for its accomplishment . We were overjoyed ...
... feel very fortunate to have embarked on this undertaking with the support of the Wisconsin Humanities Council . The enthusiasm with which we began this mission . belied a realistic timeline for its accomplishment . We were overjoyed ...
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... feel humanly connected to the people of Sierra Leone and thereby refashion their shock and disbelief into compassion and empathy . A con- ference about the war was planned to coincide with the opening of the exhibition and didactic ...
... feel humanly connected to the people of Sierra Leone and thereby refashion their shock and disbelief into compassion and empathy . A con- ference about the war was planned to coincide with the opening of the exhibition and didactic ...
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... feel 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 ...
... feel 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 ...
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... feel no in- terest in other people , and with a cool indifference to detach yourself from the very life which they bring you so abundantly ! No , painting is not done to decorate apartments . It is an instrument of war for attack and ...
... feel no in- terest in other people , and with a cool indifference to detach yourself from the very life which they bring you so abundantly ! No , painting is not done to decorate apartments . It is an instrument of war for attack and ...
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... feel it , to whatever extent they are capable . So , what did the artists , in these works that bear witness to the events of the Sierra Leone civil war , want us to know about how it felt ? And how does it feel as a viewer to be shown ...
... feel it , to whatever extent they are capable . So , what did the artists , in these works that bear witness to the events of the Sierra Leone civil war , want us to know about how it felt ? And how does it feel as a viewer to be shown ...
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