Botero: Abu Ghraib by David Ebony

The world was shocked in 2004 by photographs revealing abuse of prisoners by U.S. military guards at the Abu Ghraib prison near Baghdad, Iraq. In response, the renowned Colombian artist Fernando Botero created a series of paintings and drawings that offer a powerful statement about the atrocities of Abu Ghraib. Botero’s work offers a vision of hell on earth belonging to a long tradition of artistic statements against war and violence that includes Goya’s Los Desastres de la Guerra (The Disasters of War); Picasso's Guernica; works by the Mexican muralists Diego Rivera, José Clemente Orozco, and David Siqueiros; and Botero’s own 1980s responses to drug violence in Colombia.


$25, paperback
128 pages
Prestel Publishing, 2006

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