Table of ContentsIntroduction: Motivation and Inspirations........................................................................................3Artistic Assumptions: Archetypes and Pattern.................................................................................4The Implication of Epigenetics.........................................................................................................4War against War: Art as Aversion Therapy?.....................................................................................6Defining Terrorism: the Problem of Propaganda..............................................................................7Privacy and The Society of Fear: the case of Steve Kurtz...............................................................8Catharsis and Kathe Kollwitz...........................................................................................................9Concepts and Complicity: Geers and Kentridge ...........................................................................10Protest and Performance: Abas Amini and Ulay............................................................................11
Litmus Body: Gottfried Helnwein's beautiful gore........................................................................12
The Problem of Lived Experience: Goya in the age of CNN.........................................................13Surviving the Game: Tsuyoshi Ozawa's Vegetable Weapons.........................................................14What we Eat: Media Saturation, Epistemology Corrosion and Bacon...........................................15Trauma: Light and Form in Alfredo Jaar's Rwandan Project.........................................................16Photo-Journalism as Art: James Nachtwey.....................................................................................17Violence and Gender: Sontag, Woolf and Sally Mann...................................................................18Information Interventions: The Bureau of Inverse Technology.....................................................19Sugar Approximating Guns: Susan Graham...................................................................................20Catastrophic Wounds: Nakbah and the photos of Nina Berman....................................................21Child Mor(t)ality : Henry Darger ..................................................................................................22Peripheral Portraiture: Chen Chien-Jen..........................................................................................23Treatment / Torture.........................................................................................................................24Conclusion(s)..................................................................................................................................25
Illustration Index
Illustration 1: Ernst Friedrich. War Against War. 1924. ............................................................................5Illustration 2: I Want Out from the Committee to Help Unsell the War. 1971...........................................6Illustration 3: Kathe Kollwitz. Woman and Death. 1910...........................................................................7Illustration 4: Kendell Geers, blow. 1993..................................................................................................8Illustration 5: Abas Amini. 2003................................................................................................................9
Illustration 6: Gottfried Helnwein, The Disasters of War 3, 2007. 200 cm x 293 cm. mixed media (oiland acrylic on canvas). In memory of Goya............................................................................................10
Illustration 7: Francisco de Goya. The Third of May. 1814 ....................................................................11Illustration 8: Tsuyoshi Ozawa, Vegetable Weapons, 2005.....................................................................12Illustration 9: Francis Bacon, Figure with Meat, 1954............................................................................13Illustration 10: Alfredo Jaar, The Eyes of Gutete Emerita, 1997.............................................................14Illustration 11: James Nachtwey. Rwanda, 1994.....................................................................................15Illustration 12: Sally Mann, Untitled from What Remains, 2001, gelatin silver print with varnish, 30 x40”............................................................................................................................................................16Illustration 13: Susan Graham, Sugar Approximation-Browning Semiautomatic Pistol (Yellow), sugar,egg whites, resin, wood, paint, plexi, 6 x 15 x 8”.Exhibited at Metaphor Gallery"War and Peace". NY, NYC. June 23 - August 1, 2004...........................................................................17Illustration 14: Nina Berman, Purple Hearts: Marine Wedding, photograph, 2007.................................18Illustration 15: Henry Darger (b. 1892), Untitled, watercolor.................................................................19Illustration 16: Chen Chien-Jen, Revolt in the Soul and Body: Self-Destruction, 1996, digital print, 41 x51”............................................................................................................................................................20Illustration 17: Artist unknown, engraving of water torture (Source: Held, Robert. Inquisition. p.57 )...........................................................................................................................................................21Illustration 18: get your war on, posted 10/9/01......................................................................................26