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Beautiful, Gruesome, and True: Artists at Work in the Face of War (Columbia Global Reports) [Audiobook]

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Beautiful, Gruesome, and True: Artists at Work in the Face of War (Columbia Global Reports) [Audiobook]

Beautiful, Gruesome, and True: Artists at Work in the Face of War (Columbia Global Reports) [Audiobook]
English | ASIN: B0B3L92CPY | 2022 | 3 hours and 32 minutes | M4B@192 kbps | 292 MB
Author: Kaelen Wilson-Goldie
Narrator: Nikki Massoud

Why some of the most interesting artists of our time committed themselves to some of the most devastating conflicts on Earth. Why are some of the most interesting artists of our time committed to engaging with conflict and exploitation around the world? Beautiful, Gruesome, and True tells the stories of three of them: Amar Kanwar makes riveting films about the destruction of rural India in the drive to extract natural resources. Teresa Margolles creates haunting installations from the traces of crime scenes and drug-related violence in Mexico. The anonymous collective Abounaddara has produced more than four hundred short films chronicling the uprising and civil war in Syria. Drawing on years of research and extensive reporting, Kaelen Wilson-Goldie vividly recounts how a group of “political” artists found ways to produce remarkable works of art that demand deliberate and methodical ways of thinking—works that are contemplative, thoughtful, even redemptive.