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

11 July–1 September 1985

The exhibition 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 the social and political circumstances of a particular time. The exhibition included paintings, drawings, sculpture, decorative arts, and posters from artists Francisco Goya, Otto Dix, Henry Moore, Käthe Kollwitz, Jacques Lipchitz, and Leon Golub.

Curator: Masters students in the Department of Art as an independent study project.

The exhibition was funded in part by the Humanities Division Graduate Council and by the Humanities Division of the University of Chicago.

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