WAR AS EVER!

OMP 89

Tracy Mackenna & Edwin Janssen are interested in the relationship between conflict, looking and art. In War as Ever!, through visual reflection on images of war and violence they investigated the relationship between seventeenth century visual representations and the contemporary role of the media in the representation of war and violence.

War is of all times, so war is now. By making us aware of war and its consequences, and by undermining representations of war, can artists play a role in preventing and ending wars? How can artists make works that relate to war in productive ways? How can the museums and archives that conserve and interpret our memories of war develop their role to mediate for art?

128 pages, japanese binding
58 full page images in full color
42 full color images on 46 text pages
24 pages of artist text’s as text/image pages.

Printed at: Lecturis Printers

Artists: Tracy Mackenna & Edwin Janssen
Curators: Frits Giertsberg (Nederlands Fotomuseum) and Freek Lomme (Onomatopee)
Graphic design publication: Stout/Kramer
Texts: Lina van der Wolde, Frits Gierstberg and Tracy Mackenna & Edwin Janssen
Translations: Charles Welling and Don Mader

Made possible thanks to the generous support of The Carnegie Trust for The Universities of Scotland, Duncan of Jordanstone College of Art and Design, University of Dundee, Municipality of Eindhoven, Mondriaan fund,Stichting Begunstigers Atlas van Stolk and Nederlands Fotomuseum.