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Bodies in Conflict: From Gettysburg to Iraq, Schmucker Art Gallery Exhibition Curator’s Talk and Reception
September 9, 2016 @ 5:00 pm - 7:00 pm
Free
Bodies in Conflict: From Gettysburg to Iraq (Project Space)
Curated by Laura Bergin ‘17
September 9 – October 22, 2016
Talk with Curator Laura Bergin ’17 in Schmucker Art Gallery: September 9, 5pm
Reception to follow until 7 pm
This interdisciplinary exhibition examines how the human figure is represented in prints, photographs and paintings of modern war and political conflict from Gettysburg College’s Special Collections and Fine Arts Collection. Bergin considers how journalistic photographs, artistic interpretations, and other visual documentation of conflict and its aftermath compare among wars and across historical periods. Specific objects include a print and photographs from the Civil War, propaganda posters from the First and Second World Wars, photographs and a protest poster from the Vietnam War, and a large-scale photograph of a reconstructed journalistic image of Saddam Hussein’s palace by Iraqi-born contemporary artist Wafaa Bilal.