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The strikingly original characterizations and sharply drawn scenes that came to be known posthumously as Los Desastres de la Guerra (The Disasters of War) are among Francisco Goya's most powerful works and one of the masterpieces of Western civilization. Goya's model for his visual indictment of war and its horrors was the Spanish insurrection of 1808 and the resulting Peninsular War with Napoleonic France. The bloody conflict and the horrible famine of Madrid were witnessed by Goya himself, or were revealed to him from the accounts of friends and contemporaries. From 1810 to 1820, he worked to immortalize them in a series of etchings.
The artist himself never saw the results. The etchings were not published until 1863, some 35 years after his death. By then, the passions of the Napoleonic era had subsided and the satirical implications in Goya's work were less likely to offend. The Dover edition reproduces in its original size the second state of this first edition, which contained 80 prints. Three additional prints not in the 1863 edition are also included here, making this the most complete collection possible of the etchings Goya intended for this series. The bitter, biting captions are reprinted, along with the new English translations, as are the original title page and preface.
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- Rating: 5 out of 5 stars5/5I've always enjoyed Goya's style of painting (somewhat morbid) and when I was traveling in Buenos Aires, Argentina, I found this gem in a bookstore. I had know of Goys's depiction of the attrocities comitted by the French on the Spanish from art history. The drawings are extremely graphic, with comments by Goys under each drawing.Think cut up bodies tied to trees, women being raped, people being shot, etc. Man's inhumaity to man is graphically portrayed.
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The Disasters of War - Francisco Goya
War
The Disasters of War
BY
FRANCISCO GOYA Y LUCIENTES
With a new Introduction by Philip Hofer
THE DEPARTMENT OF GRAPHIC ARTS, HARVARD UNIVERSITY LIBRARY
DOVER PUBLICATIONS, INC., NEW YORK
Copyright © 1967 by Dover Publications, Inc.
All rights reserved.
Library of Congress Catalog Card Number: 67-15964
International Standard Book Number
ISBN-13: 978-0-486-21872-4
ISBN-10: 0-486-21872-4
Manufactured in the United States by Courier Corporation
21872420
www.doverpublications.com
This Dover edition, first published in 1967, reproduces in its entirety the first edition of Goya’s Disasters of War (Los Desastres de la Guerra, Madrid, 1863, published by the Real Academia de Nobles Artes de San Fernando): the original Spanish title page and preface and the eighty original plates (natural size).
In addition, the three plates (81–83) which became known only after 1863 are reproduced here from proofs in the collection of the Museum of Fine Arts in Boston.
The present volume also includes a new Introduction by Mr. Philip Hofer, a list of plates, and new translations of the 1863 Spanish title page and preface and of the engraved captions to the plates, prepared by the editorial staff of Dover Publications. (The translation of the captions is, of course, duly indebted to earlier English-language editions.)
Table of Contents
Introduction to the Dover Edition, by Philip Hofer
Original Spanish title page, with translation
Preface to the Original Edition, with translation
List of Plates
Plates
The Disasters of War
Introduction to the Dover Edition
Ever since the 1914–18 war, and its aftermath of man’s continuing inhumanity to man,
ever since the second world conflagration and the ensuing cold war, more and more attention has been attracted to Goya’s dramatic graphic representations of a similar subject, which came to be known by the posthumous title, Los Desastres de la Guerra (The Disasters of War). First published in 1863, thirty-five years after the artist’s death, it normally consists of eighty aquatint plates, roughly six by eight inches oblong format, with
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