University Art Museum, California State University, Long Beach
1250 Bellflower Blvd
562.985.5761
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Sandow Birk, The Liberation of Baghdad, Courtesy the artist
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Nov 15, 2007 – Dec 16, 2007
Daily (schedule)
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$4
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Sandow Birk's Depravities of War examines its titular subject's social, political, and aesthetic constructs. Birk's precursor was 17th-century printmaker Jacques Callot, whose Miseries and Misfortunes of War is exhibited alongside Birk's pieces. Both artists depict war's inhumanity in awful detail and with a cynical gusto; and while Birk owes much to Callot in style and temperament, his provocative, ironic paintings – such as Hero (suicide bomber) and Hero (American Soldier) – pose distinctly contemporary questions about moral relativism and the power of language in world politics.
