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Nov 19, 2023 · This new exhibition of over 140 works by 30 artists presents more than 140 works by 39 artists who have experienced or are experiencing war. Their works express empathy and complexity, unease but also great humanity.
Mar 14, 2022 · The images produced by artists historicize war’s sick seductiveness while concentrating the mind on past, present, and, ineluctably, future calamity.
- Peter Schjeldahl
Jul 14, 2023 · Artists in a Time of War, an impressive, dramatic exhibition at Castello di Rivoli, the castle-museum outside Turin, assembles such an exchange of messages. They span centuries,...
- Jackie Wullschläger
In Artists in Times of War, Zinn looks at the possibilities to create such apertures through art, film, activism, publishing, and through our everyday lives. In this collection of four essays — three of which are previously unpublished — the author of A People’s History of the United States writes about why “to criticize the government ...
Jul 28, 2022 · How can any war photograph compel us, how can any work of war art preserve its importance, while swimming upstream in an undammable river of content?
In his article, "Artists in Times of War," Howard Zinn examines the role of the artist during war time and finds that the transcendent nature of art not only shows us the beauty of everyday life, but can also go beyond everyday politics and media hype to critically address the problems of the day.
The exhibition features art of the past and present, including Francisco José de Goya y Lucientes’ Desastres de la Guerra (Disasters of War), 1810-1815, and develops the theme of war and post-traumatic subjectivity through historical works and new projects by leading contemporary artists.
