The Disasters of War (Dover Fine Art, History of Art)

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The strikingly original characterizations and sharply drawn scenes that came to be known posthumously as Los Desastres de la Guerra (The Disasters of War) are among Francisco Goya’s most powerful works and some of the masterpieces of Western civilization. Goya’s model for his visual indictment of war and its horrors used to be the Spanish riot of 1808 and the resulting Peninsular War with Napoleonic France. The bloody conflict and the horrible famine of Madrid were witnessed by Goya himself, or were revealed to him from the accounts of friends and contemporaries. From 1810 to 1820, he worked to immortalize them in a series of etchings.
The artist himself never saw the results. The etchings were not published until 1863, some 35 years after his death. By then, the passions of the Napoleonic era had subsided and the satirical implications in Goya’s work were less more likely to offend. The Dover edition reproduces in its original size the second one state of this first edition, which contained 80 prints. Three additional prints not within the 1863 edition are also included here, making this essentially the most complete collection conceivable of the etchings Goya intended for this series. The bitter, biting captions are reprinted, at the side of the brand new English translations, as are the original title page and preface.


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