This is a truly encyclopedic survey of artists' responses - both
'official' and personal - to 'the horrors of war'. "Art and War"
reveals the sheer diversity of artists' portrayals of this most
devastating aspect of the human condition - from the 'heroic'
paintings of Benjamin West and John Singer Sargent to brutal and
iconic works by artists from Goya to Picasso, and the equally
oppositional work of Leon Golub, Nancy Spero and others who reacted
with fury to the Vietnam War. Laura Brandon pays particular
attention to work produced in response to World War I and World War
II, as well as to more recent art and memorial work by artists as
diverse as Barbara Kruger, Alfredo Jarr and Maya Lin. She looks
finally to the reactions of contemporary artists such as Langlands
and Bell to the US invasion in 2001 of Afghanistan and the 'War on
Terror'.
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