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| War is one of mankind’s
most universal, evocative and perpetual subjects. Relevant to all
citizens, communities, cultures, and nations, war and conflict
evoke a multitude of images and associations, both personal and
collective. Through photographs in daily newspapers, family albums
and histories, footage seen in movies and television, and historical
paintings—such as Picasso’s Guernica—we are all
connected to the threats, realities, and memories of war. Living
artists use diverse media to describe contemporary perspectives
about how individuals, cultures, and nations engage in and record
human aggression and conflict. |
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wartime
voices
Subject Area: Language Arts
Artists: Antin,
Schorr, Suh
Using visual and written narratives that represent multiple perspectives
and points of view surrounding particular wars, the ways in which
soldiers
and citizens prepare, participate, and remember war will be addressed
through personal memoirs, letters, songs and poems. Students will
create
new narratives from the point of view of participants in particular conflicts
or wars representing their roles and emotional involvement in the
events
surrounding them. |
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war
on film
Subject Area: Social Studies
Artists: Korot, Mann, Schorr
Films and photographs on war are often heavily edited, biased, and selective
in what they portray: suffering rather than jubilation, winners rather
than losers, leaders rather troops, etc. Looking at the way photographs
have documented the people and places affected by war, teachers and students
will look at photographs and video as the starting point for researching,
comparing, contrasting, and critiquing historical and contemporary wartime
journalistic and art-based photography. |
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confronting
conflict
Subject Area: Visual & Performng Arts
Artists: Ford, Sikander,
Walker
Critics often say “History is told by the winners.” This lesson explores
that statement, as well as how formal elements such as contrast, and conceptual
elements such as symbolism, graphically represent and depict historical conflict.
Students will look at different visual narratives that represent historic or
fictional events but at the same time reference current issues or conflicts.
Students will then create their own visual narrative referencing a personal or
social issue. |
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“I
think that war is about losing innocence. And I think that
the war pictures were particularly about that journey.”
— Collier
Schorr
“I’m thinking a lot about militancy
and the steps that one takes or people have taken in other parts
of the world and sometimes here, to liberate themselves by force,
liberate themselves through the creation of militias and ideologies
that are maybe a skewed version of an American dream and what happens
within that world.”
— Kara
Walker
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