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. Making
novel contributions to longstanding debates about historical
memory, testimony, and the representation of violence, The Art of
Witnessing tells a new story, print by print, to highlight the ways
in which Goya's masterpiece extends far beyond conventional
understandings of visual testimony.
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