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20 of 21 people found the following review helpful
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In 2008 I was reading an article in The Times about the Bosian War in the 1990s. In referring to a particulsrly horrible atrocity involving Bosian Muslims, and darkened room and Sledgehammers, the journilist likened the scene to one of Goya's etchings from this series. Well, the expression timeless is overused when referring to art, but here is bang on the money.
Goya is rightly regarded as one of the Fathers of modern art. Perhaps, in part, because he was a genius; perhaps, also, because he lived through the collapse of the Ancien Regime, and the birth pangs of a modern European polity. Particurly so in the very modern seeming Peninsular War between the Spanish people and Napoleonic France.
Robert Hughes, the art critic, insightfully points out in his outstanding biography of the artist, that maybe his deafness made him more alert to body language. And that this is the factor that so informs and imbues his portraits, particularly of Spanish royalty. Further, it informs all his art: Goya was clearly a man of marvelous visual perception. But beyond that, he has an uncanny ability to be passionately involved in his paintings, and yet maintain an intellectual, creative, objectivity, thus maintaining control of the metaphorical imagery in the art.
All these factors come into play in these astonishing etchings. Note, for instance, his famous 'shorthand' of rifle barrels, and nothing else protruding in from one side of a picture. These are soldiers, who cares who, committing atrocities. It is a powerful and non-partisan metaphor: we are ALL to blame.
Pity, compassion, anger, grief, and dumbfound puzzlement at how such things can happen, are writ large across this series of minature masterpieces that record the timeless quality of man's inhumanity to man.
Goya is rightly regarded as one of the Fathers of modern art. Perhaps, in part, because he was a genius; perhaps, also, because he lived through the collapse of the Ancien Regime, and the birth pangs of a modern European polity. Particurly so in the very modern seeming Peninsular War between the Spanish people and Napoleonic France.
Robert Hughes, the art critic, insightfully points out in his outstanding biography of the artist, that maybe his deafness made him more alert to body language. And that this is the factor that so informs and imbues his portraits, particularly of Spanish royalty. Further, it informs all his art: Goya was clearly a man of marvelous visual perception. But beyond that, he has an uncanny ability to be passionately involved in his paintings, and yet maintain an intellectual, creative, objectivity, thus maintaining control of the metaphorical imagery in the art.
All these factors come into play in these astonishing etchings. Note, for instance, his famous 'shorthand' of rifle barrels, and nothing else protruding in from one side of a picture. These are soldiers, who cares who, committing atrocities. It is a powerful and non-partisan metaphor: we are ALL to blame.
Pity, compassion, anger, grief, and dumbfound puzzlement at how such things can happen, are writ large across this series of minature masterpieces that record the timeless quality of man's inhumanity to man.
1 of 1 people found the following review helpful
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I have to admit that I wasn't quite prepared for such graphic images of war and in spite of the coverage of Iraq and Afganistan Goya's drawings are so much more shocking, perhaps because they are all close quarter images,knives bayonets and summary executions. To my mind they indicate that the veneer of civilised life is just that; a veneer.So if you buy this book.. be warned! It is not for the faint hearted.
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19 April 2007
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Consistently all things published by Dover are of the highest and most comprehensive quality technically and academically, and yet at a very low and democratic price, as if they actually wish to place high culture into the hands of the common man and the poorest person, rather than charging top dollar for instantly disposable art and airport lounge short-lived literature. Dover rather presents for our constant use high quality and durable books: Our Daily Book.
And thus this book which we need to see and weep every night as we grow dull with constant war and violence. We see here why war must wage nevermore, in this brave new era of total and indiscriminate and disproportionate yet profitable colonialist warfare.
When allowed by our media we may now see the same or similar images to these which Goya so accurately depicts, both realistically and fantastically. Goya, so well known as a painter of the Spanish courts, but also of Saturn consuming his children, here shows us grotesquely and coldly the true meaning of war, the true fruits of warfare, the moral and the spiritual causes and effects of war: the disasters of war.
As I pride myself as bilingual and am certified superlatively fluent in Spanish with some English besides, as well as a few other tongues, I found occasion here to wince at Dover's translations of Goya's carefully scripted captions, or to shout aloud more probable interpretations, yet I find this the only possible objection to this excellent and gratefully received volume, which must be on the table of every American home, lacking as we are the graphics from Fallujah or Gaza. Read this book and pray for peace. Read this book and study war no more. Read this book with Mark Twain's War Prayer, and turn aside from the ever more rugged war path surging with the blood of innocents.
Even more than Barefoot Gen, more than the immortal Guernica, more even than Speigelman's Maus series, this realistic, classical and careful draftsmanship of the great Goya brings home to us across the centuries the true horrors and disasters of war, with poignant captions. Please read this book in this excellent, scholarly and complete presentation by Dover Editions, now at an even lower price here upon the amazon. Here must we see that the victims of our violence are human beings, our brothers and sisters, children and elders, and not some dehumanized uncounted collateral statistic alienated into separate labels of faith or of nation. We strike our own family in these disasters of war. This is a powerful book which must be seen today, and most gratefully Dover offers it still upon this amazon.
And thus this book which we need to see and weep every night as we grow dull with constant war and violence. We see here why war must wage nevermore, in this brave new era of total and indiscriminate and disproportionate yet profitable colonialist warfare.
When allowed by our media we may now see the same or similar images to these which Goya so accurately depicts, both realistically and fantastically. Goya, so well known as a painter of the Spanish courts, but also of Saturn consuming his children, here shows us grotesquely and coldly the true meaning of war, the true fruits of warfare, the moral and the spiritual causes and effects of war: the disasters of war.
As I pride myself as bilingual and am certified superlatively fluent in Spanish with some English besides, as well as a few other tongues, I found occasion here to wince at Dover's translations of Goya's carefully scripted captions, or to shout aloud more probable interpretations, yet I find this the only possible objection to this excellent and gratefully received volume, which must be on the table of every American home, lacking as we are the graphics from Fallujah or Gaza. Read this book and pray for peace. Read this book and study war no more. Read this book with Mark Twain's War Prayer, and turn aside from the ever more rugged war path surging with the blood of innocents.
Even more than Barefoot Gen, more than the immortal Guernica, more even than Speigelman's Maus series, this realistic, classical and careful draftsmanship of the great Goya brings home to us across the centuries the true horrors and disasters of war, with poignant captions. Please read this book in this excellent, scholarly and complete presentation by Dover Editions, now at an even lower price here upon the amazon. Here must we see that the victims of our violence are human beings, our brothers and sisters, children and elders, and not some dehumanized uncounted collateral statistic alienated into separate labels of faith or of nation. We strike our own family in these disasters of war. This is a powerful book which must be seen today, and most gratefully Dover offers it still upon this amazon.
11 of 12 people found the following review helpful
Brings the reader to the batlle field
20 Nov 2006
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The Disasters of war is a difficult book to read, containing the most impressing pictures of war and its consequences. The black/white drawings are as real as life itself, and sometimes even more!
Goya depicts tortures made on public squares, people starving to death, and warriors fighting. But the most amazing is the vividness and actuality of the pictures. The Disasters of war is like a poetry book, it has no time, and no defined significance; it can be interpreted in infinite different ways and it is always an up-to-date work.
In my view, one of the best ways to fight war is using art. War leads on to war, art leads on to art. Understanding what and how war happens is essential in order to fight it (I excluded Why since I believe there is no explanation for it). This book shows the What perfectly. I have written a review of the book 'Why?' by Nikolai Popov which is about the How.
Goya depicts tortures made on public squares, people starving to death, and warriors fighting. But the most amazing is the vividness and actuality of the pictures. The Disasters of war is like a poetry book, it has no time, and no defined significance; it can be interpreted in infinite different ways and it is always an up-to-date work.
In my view, one of the best ways to fight war is using art. War leads on to war, art leads on to art. Understanding what and how war happens is essential in order to fight it (I excluded Why since I believe there is no explanation for it). This book shows the What perfectly. I have written a review of the book 'Why?' by Nikolai Popov which is about the How.
19 of 23 people found the following review helpful
15th century demons from hell
12 Sep 2000
Format:Paperback
Like most dover press books, we have here a wonderful bargain: clear reproductions and good paper stock. Goya was a court painter trying to please his patrons, but in this series of etchings, he indulged his twisted soul in the first recorded anti war propaganda. These etchings are both lovely in their technique and horrifying in their imagery.
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