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Gallery Talk: They Saw It: Images of Atrocity, from Goya's The Disasters of War to Today

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Event Type: Announcement
Location: Grinnell College Museum of Art, Bucksbaum Arts Center, 1108 Park Street, Grinnell, IA 50112
Time: Wednesday, October 2, 2024 at 4:00 PM
Categories: Arts & Culture

Event Description:

Assistant Professor of Art History Fredo Rivera '06 will discuss their particiaption as a student in the exibition seminar of spring 2004, which produced an exhibition of Francisco Goya's The Disasters of War print series in the mueseum. Rivera will specifically focus on how student curators connected their anaylsis and presentation of Goya's prints to the concurrent Iraq war and its controversies, most notbaly the Abu Ghraib prison scandal. What can Goya's prints teach us about humanity and atrocirty and how might they help us think through images of war today? 

October 2 at 4PM 

 

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