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Victors and Victims: Artists' Responses to War from Antiquity through the Vietnam Era

Victors and Victims: Artists' Responses to War from Antiquity through the Vietnam Era

This catalogue details the exhibition Victors and Victims, which examined war as artistic subject matter throughout history. The works, ranging from the heroic images of antiquity, to the romantic glorification of the Napoleonic warrior, to the victims and devastation of modern warfare, portray both the artistic conventions as well as... more »

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Vision and Communism

Vision and Communism

In the last thirty years of the Soviet Communist project, Viktor Koretsky’s art struggled to solve an enduring riddle: how to ensure⎯or restore⎯Communism’s moral health through the production of a distinctively Communist vision. In this sense Koretsky’s art demonstrates what an “avant-garde late Communist art” would have looked like if... more »

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Weimar Bodies: Fantasies about the Body in Weimar Art, Science, and Medicine

Weimar Bodies: Fantasies about the Body in Weimar Art, Science, and Medicine

While German art in the 1920s is not unique in its representational qualities and meanings, it does exemplify a particular moment in which we can identify continuities and re-readings of the body in Western culture. Weimar citizens were left with questions about their new identity and place within the world,... more »

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