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The Art of Witnessing: Francisco de Goya's Disasters of War

The Art of Witnessing: Francisco de Goya's Disasters of War

Iarocci, Michael

Paperback

Series: Toronto Iberic

Art HistoryIndividual ArtistsPrintmaking & Stamping

ISBN10: 1487545274
ISBN13: 9781487545277
Publisher: University of Toronto Press
Published: Dec 7 2022
Pages: 296
Weight: 0.83
Height: 0.79 Width: 5.91 Depth: 8.90
Language: English

Widely acknowledged as a major turning point in the history of visual depictions of war, Francisco de Goya's renowned print series The Disasters of War remains a touchstone for serious engagement with the violence of war and the questions raised by its artistic representation.


The Art of Witnessing provides a new account of Goya's print series by taking readers through the forty-seven prints he dedicated to the violence of war. Drawing on facets of Goya's artistry rarely considered together before, the book challenges the notion that documentary realism and historical testimony were his primary aims. Michael Iarocci argues that while the depiction of war's atrocities was central to Goya's project, the lasting power of the print series stems from the artist's complex moral and aesthetic meditations on the subject.

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