Ii h It is perhaps most fitfi ting to give the llast word i ds to the artist: “I’ h “I’ve always bel b en perpll d exed by
the many contradictions and complexities of war. There’s the paradox of ‘fighting for peace,’ the use of force and destruction for achieving peace and security, and the collateral damage to the environment that sustains us. There’s the contradiction between violence and aesthetics, the compulsion to see beauty in artists’ images of suffering, destruction, and carnage. And then there’s this: War embodies at once both the basest, most barbaric aspects of human nature and our most vaunted and valued civilized virtues personified by heroic soldiers who sacrificed their lives for the greater good.”