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This is an exhibition that looks at different aspects of the experience of war and its impact on individuals and communities. It is an exhibition about the culture of war, by which it also understands the environment, behaviour, logic and values that war intrinsically produces, and its cultural role: its legacy in memory and cultural objects, its role in the formation of nations' identities, and its potential to prepare us for future wars and also to justify them.
The exhibition combines paintings, photography, cinema, conceptual art and installations, documents and objects, all from very different sources. The artists signing the numerous works on show include, among others, Robert Arneson, Umberto Boccioni, Chris Burden,
Salvador Dalí, Otto Dix, Léonard-Tsuguharu Foujita, Leon Golub, Natalia Goncharova, George Grosz, Philip Guston, Renato Guttuso, Alfredo Jaar, Oskar Kokoschka, Barbara Kruger, Mikhail Larichev, Mikhail Larionov, Fernand Léger,
Roy Lichtenstein, Kasimir Malevich,
Antoni Miralda, Henry Moore, Robert Morris, Paul Nash, Adi Ness, Christopher Nevinson, Simon Norfolk, Gilles Peress, Leni Riefenstahl, Martha Rosler, Peter Saul, Gino Severini, Félix Vallotton and Jeff Wall.
Curators: Antonio Monegal, José M. Ridao and Francesc Torres
Production:
CCCB and Barcelona 2004 World Forum of Cultures.
Leni Riefenstahl duringa a national-socialist propaganda fiming