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Disasters of War

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Disasters of War
Goya’s violent protest against French occupation of Spain. [Art. Hist.: Osborne, 497]
See : Horror

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Among the critics of the more recent disasters of war southeast of Troy you don't often see on television, there is none finer than Lewis Lapham, the editor of Harper's Magazine.
Jake and Dinos Chapman's "Great Deeds Against the Dead," a three-dimensional tableau of one of Goya's etchings from "The Disasters of War," caused a stir because of its shocking representation of castrated, decapitated, and mutilated cadavers.
The series, called ``The Disasters of War,'' is part of the Norton Simon exhibit that opened Friday, ``To Do Battle: Conflict, Struggle and Symbol in Art.
 
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