"No one will say what needs to be said: that "Baghdad Journal" is repugnant and that any artist who identifies himself with the Iraq war and occupation deserves to be and will be held in contempt, as an apologist for war crimes."
From Clare Hurley, "The New York art world's apology for the Iraq war" World Socialist Web Site, 13 June 2005.
@GaiusGracchus whomever Clare Hurley is, he/she is a jackass.
Steve Mumford's work is an outstanding collection of events in Iraq. To capture scenarios as he sees fit is the artistic freedom of an artist.
I assume Clare is just ranting because he didn't portray works of one event of American wrong doing in Abu Ghraib versus thousands of events of Islamic and Socialist wrong doing over the years in order to appease Hurley's pseudo-intellectual sense of ignorant self-righteousness.
"No one will say what needs to be said: that "Baghdad Journal" is repugnant and that any artist who identifies himself with the Iraq war and occupation deserves to be and will be held in contempt, as an apologist for war crimes."
From Clare Hurley, "The New York art world's apology for the Iraq war" World Socialist Web Site, 13 June 2005.
GaiusGracchus 3 years ago
You're a freaking lunatic, dude.
jthomasnovak 3 years ago
@GaiusGracchus whomever Clare Hurley is, he/she is a jackass.
Steve Mumford's work is an outstanding collection of events in Iraq. To capture scenarios as he sees fit is the artistic freedom of an artist.
I assume Clare is just ranting because he didn't portray works of one event of American wrong doing in Abu Ghraib versus thousands of events of Islamic and Socialist wrong doing over the years in order to appease Hurley's pseudo-intellectual sense of ignorant self-righteousness.
woodycoat 1 year ago