Full Description
Can We Stop Killing Each Other? wrestles with the darkest side of humanity. It explores the fundamental question of why humans are led to kill, examining the artworks, films, video games and television programmes that grapple with and manifest themes of death and destruction.
Using material culture linked to moments of extreme violence, such as the Holocaust and the 1994 genocide against the Tutsi in Rwanda, this publication offers a challenging but eye-opening consideration of some of the most horrifying events in human history as explored through art.
Using historical and contemporary art as a lens to explore these themes, the book will include a new interview with Ethiopian artist Tesfaye Urgessa (b.1983), who creates emotive paintings reflecting on the refugee crisis. It will also explore the role of art as sanctuary from violence, through new approaches to the work of Claude Monet (1840-1926)
Contents
Foreword
Jago Cooper
6
Can We Stop Killing Each Other?
Tania Moore
12
1. Art as Life and Death
Jago Cooper and Tania Moore
16
2. The Art of Violence
Joanna Bourke
24
3. A Grim Fascination: Watching Others Kill
Vanessa Tothill
36
4. Papare Eighty.one as an Expression of Mana
Michael Steedman
48
5. Caught Between Worlds: Painting Across Boundaries
Tesfaye Urgessa in conversation with John Kenneth Paranada
56
6. Art as Sanctuary: Reflections on Claude Monet
Elizabeth Elliott
68
Acknowledgements
70
Author Biographies
73
Picture Credits
78
Notes
79
Index
84
