In this article, I explore some of the difficulties facing officially appointed war artists seeking to visually represent atrocities such as rape. ![]() Uniquely, artists who are dispatched into the cauldron of combat from regions of the world that are largely free from war, are forced to recognise that the body- their body-is no longer a subject “good to think” but an object that is “necessary to be”. When hurled into armed conflict, artists face the formidable task of balancing the poetics of revelation against the aesthetics of destruction.
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