The shootings of may 3, 1808
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This document lists the titles of various artworks spanning from 1808 to 1982 that depict or comment on human violence, suffering, and political turmoil. It includes lithographs by Francisco Goya depicting the 1808 Dos de Mayo Uprising in Madrid and the social impacts of the French invasion of Spain, as well as paintings by Pablo Picasso, K辰the Kollwitz, Otto Dix, and Jean-Michel Basquiat that address the horrors of war, the human costs of political conflict, and racial injustice.
The shootings of may 3, 1808
- 1. The Shootings of May 3, 1808, 1814, Goya
- 4. Guernica, detail, Picasso, 1937
- 5. Gloomy Presentiments of Things to Come, Goya
- 6. That Always Happens, Goya
- 8. And They Were Like Wild Beasts, Goya
- 9. They do Not Want to, Goya
- 10. And Nor Do These, Goya
- 11. Nor They, Goya
- 12. This Brings You Luck, Goya
- 14. With Reason or Without, Goya
- 15. Women Give Courage, Goya
- 16. The Charnel House, 1944-45, Picasso
- 17. Meeting Madman at Midnight, 1924, Dix
- 18. Never Again War, 1924, Kollwitz
- 19. Native Carrying Some Guns, Bibles, and Amorites on Safari, Basquiat, 1982
- 20. The History of Black People, Basquiat, no date
Editor's Notes
- #20: In Native Carrying Some Guns, Bibles, Amorites on Safari, the theme of black labour at the service of its own exploitation is depicted by the image of a stylised Negro carrying a crate above his head (with the words ROYAL SALT INC息 written across the front of it), standing beside a gun-toting bwana in a penile safari hat. Basquiat further ironises this depiction in the accompanying (capitalised) text: COLONIZATION: PART TWO IN A SERIES and GOOD MONEY IN SAVAGES. A reference to animal skins is made ambiguous in the rendering of $KIN$, which suggests that the animals being hunted/exploited by the POACHERS/MISSIONARIES are black.