Art and Conflict
14 videos • 1,087 views • by San Francisco Museum of Modern Art Contemporary artists from around the world draw on their personal experiences to illuminate the landscapes of war, terrorism, and political upheaval. Highlights include Jananne Al-Ani's haunting aerial photos of Iraqi archaeological sites visible only from the air and at sunset/sunrise, Susan Meiselas' opinions on the duty of photographers to bring empathy to conflict, Hans Haacke breaking down the "holy" boundary between art and politics, and Kikuji Kawada's sublime images that straddle the border of abstraction, taken in Hiroshima shortly after the nuclear bombing.