NANCY SPERO. THE WAR SERIES 1966-1970

Nancy Spero, born in Cleveland in 1926, has established herself as one of the most important figures on the New York art scene. Her refined and vigorous work is largely a reinterpretation of women's history. Inspired by the political events of the Vietnam War, she spent five years painting exclusively in gouache and ink on paper the series War paintings, in which she expressed all her anger against war, violence and the oppression it brings. This publication takes an in-depth look at the War paintings, conceived by the artist as authe...[Read more]