The world was shocked in 2003 by the revelation that U.S. guards had mistreated and tortured Iraqi prisoners at the notorious Abu Ghraib prison near Baghdad. In response, the renowned Colombian artist Fernando Botero created a series of riveting paintings and drawings that constitute an acerbic and poignant statement against violence and man's inhumanity to man. The 73-year-old artist, drawing on his knowledge of Renaissance art, has produced a body of works that are timely yet timeless, a vision of hell on earth belonging to a long, noble tradition of artistic statements against war and violence that includes Goya's "Caprichos" and Picasso's "Guernica", the works of the Mexican muralists, more recent politically charged works by Philip Guston and Leon Golub, and Botero's own 1980s paintings of the effects of drug violence in Colombia. Born in Medellin, Colombia, in 1932, Fernando Botero studied in Madrid and in Florence, learning the fresco techniques of the Italian masters, and in Mexico City where he encountered the work of the muralists Rivera, Orozco, and Siqueiros. His paintings are in the permanent collections of major museums; his public monuments in bronze include Broadgate Venus, erected in Exchange Square in London.
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'In 'The Abu Ghraib Effect' Stephen F. Eisenman claims a deeper historical root for displays of pride and complicity in torture and murder.'Time Out, February 2007
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David Ebony is Associate Managing Editor and News Editor of Art in America magazine, to which he has contributed numerous features, reviews and news articles over the past 15 years. His most recent books are Carlo Maria Mariani and Emily Mason. He lives and works in New York City.
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A book that all adults should know of.... A look at what we have become and unfortunately will have to live with being seen as for the forseeable future. When a person is ill used at the hands of a corrupt regime, that person will not forget and oftimes will share those feelings with an extended network of friends and family. Fernando Botero has taken images seen around the world and put those images in a light filled retina seering volume that acturatley portrays the Bush regime at it's most disgusting. May we never again see a day when this type of behavior is sanctioned by our own government
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I have always been enraptured by the work of Botero; I love his oddly-proportioned people whose immense, weighty bodies often teeter on tiny feet. Botero's off-kilter figures engaged in the horrors of Abu Ghraib make his work in this book even more compelling, disturbing and engaging.
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