
Goya's War
Los Desastres de la Guerra
University of Delaware Press
Published on 30. September 2013
Book
Paperback/Softback
180 pages
978-0-9856251-1-5 (ISBN)
Description
This book, published to accompany an exhibition of the same name, examines Goya's series of eighty aquatint etchings, Los Desastres de la Guerra (The Disasters of War) within the context of the Napoleonic invasion of Spain and the ensuing restoration of the Spanish government (1808-14). This series of aquatint etchings was published thirty-five years after Goya's death, following a sequence created several years after the plates were etched. In this book, Goya scholar Janis Tomlinson proposes an alternative order that both reflects the chronology of Goya's creation of these images, corroborated by his changing style, subjects and materials, and illustrates their relation to the historical events that inspired them. The enduring power of these prints for contemporary artists is the subject of an essay by Kathleen Stewart Howe.
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Language
English
Place of publication
Claremont, CA
United States
Publishing group
Pomona College Museum of Art
Dimensions
Height: 268 mm
Width: 213 mm
Thickness: 11 mm
Weight
567 gr
ISBN-13
978-0-9856251-1-5 (9780985625115)
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Persons
Kathleen Stewart Howe is the Sarah Rempel and Herbert S. Rempel '23 director of the Pomona College Art Museum and professor of Art History in the department of Art and Art History. Janis Angela Tomlinson is director of University Museums at the University of Delaware.