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A-10
Art
Maker: Kostelnik, Dragan
An A-10 aircraft with shark-like jaws and eyes painted onto its nose. There is a figure of a small boy screen printed in blue on the left hand side of the caricature.ART90697
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Allies close in on capital
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Maker: Unknown The Canberra Times Federal Capital Press of Australia Ltd
Depicts a headline broadsheet published by the 'Canberra Times' newspaper . The headline, which is related to the First Gulf War (1990-91) , states 'Allies close in on capital'.ARTV09265
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A man whose family died when his house was bombed in a Basrah suburb
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Maker: Connor, Kevin
Portrait of an unidentified man beside a bomb damaged house, with other buildings in the background in Basrah. The man's family died when the bombing occurred.ART29752.048
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A man whose family died when his house was bombed in a Basrah suburb
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Maker: Connor, Kevin
A man's face in the foreground, inside a house, with the sun depicted in the background.ART29752.047
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Amman to Jerusalem, view of Jordan River and the West Bank from the bus
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Maker: Connor, Kevin
Jordan River and West Bank, coloured in blue and red accordingly.ART29752.058
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Arrival 1 a.m. figure at bus terminal, Baghdad
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Maker: Connor, Kevin
Weary and slightly distorted figure in a bus terminal in Baghdad. A crowd of people and a bus are in the background.ART29752.004
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Baghdad Blitz
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Maker: Kostelnik, Dragan
This image looks over Baghdad as it is under attack from the air. The attacking planes are lit and cut by the beams of several spotlights which scan the sky. These rigid beams cut the image with harsh...ART90717
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Baghdad bridge
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Maker: Kostelnik, Dragan
There is a section of the Baghdad bridge missing, perhaps as result of war-related destruction, or maybe because of years of neglect. It no longer exists as a bridge between places, but cuts off one w...ART90695
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Baghdad defence ministry
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Maker: Kostelnik, Dragan
This print illustrates the bombing of the Baghdad Defence Ministry. In the background, the Ministry is ablaze, whilst smoke billows into the foreground. The artist has contrasted the bright orange of ...ART90709
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Baghdad defence ministry and two phantoms (Babylon sisters)
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Maker: Kostelnik, Dragan
A man lies on the ground inside the courtyard of a building, which (one is led to assume by the title) is the Baghdad Defence Ministry. Flying overhead are two aircraft.ART90708
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Barricade and soldiers outside Mosque, Karbala
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Maker: Connor, Kevin
Three armed soldiers outside the entrance to a Mosque in Karbala. A barricade is in front of the figures. The artist has drawn five portraits of men on the barricade, each individually bordered.ART29752.027
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Barricade, soldiers and light field gun outside Mosque, Karbala
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Maker: Connor, Kevin
Two soldiers standing beside a light field gun, with buildings in the background.ART29752.026
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[Base can you read me?...]
Art
Maker: Leahy, Sean
Depicts a cartoon produced during the First Gulf War (1990-1991) which comments on the pervasiveness of the media during this war. A fighter pilot , flying over a burning city, prepares to eject from ...ART90049
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Battle success
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Maker: Unknown The Australian Nationwide News
Depicts a headline broadsheet for 'The Australian' newspaper . The headline is 'Battle Success'. The image depicts Australian soldiers on a tank celebrating and relates to the First Gulf War (1990-91)...ARTV09264
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Battle success
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Maker: Unknown The Australian
Depicts a headline broadsheet for 'The Australian' newspaper . The headline is 'Battle Success'. The image depicts Australian soldiers in the Middle East. The soldiers are standing and sitting on a ta...ARTV09222
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Battle success
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Maker: Unknown The Australian
Depicts a headline broadsheet for 'The Australian' newspaper . The headline is 'Battle Success'. The image depicts Australian soldiers in the Middle East. The soldiers are standing and sitting on a ta...ARTV09221
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Beginning of the end
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Maker: Unknown Time Australia Magazine
Depoicts a broadsheet of a 'Time Australia' magazine cover from 25 February 1991. The headline reads 'Beginning of the end, The Ground War: How it will be fought, Inside Iraq: Photos of the bombing'....ARTV09167
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Blue, Naval Lieutenant Jeffrey N. Zaun, Iraq, 1991
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Maker: Fairskye, Merilyn
Fairskye has depicted the right side of Lieutenant Jeffrey N. Zaun's face in a realistic style, while the left side is distorted, as if being stretched and pulled by an external force. The work commen...ART29700
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Bob Hawke in the back pocket of a cowboy with Saddam Hussein
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Maker: Leahy, Sean
Depicts a cartoon of the small figure of Australian Prime Minister, Bob Hawke, in the back pocket of a cowboy who is just about to be involved in a gun fight with Saddam Hussein. This satirical cartoo...ART90080
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Bomb/bunker
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Maker: Kostelnik, Dragan
A darkened image of a bomb bunker by night. There is an embossed, un-coloured cross in the centre of the wall of the bunker.ART90712
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Bomb/bunker
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Maker: Kostelnik, Dragan
A darkened image of a bomb bunker by night. In the centre of the wall of the bunker, there is an un-coloured, embossed cross over which the artist has printed a cartoon image of a cat. This image is a...ART90711
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Bombed bridge, dogs and sunset, Baghdad
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Maker: Connor, Kevin
A semi-abstract scene of a destroyed bridge as well as roaming dogs. A pink and red sky is in the background, a sunset in Baghdad.ART29752.021
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Bombed convention centre
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Maker: Connor, Kevin
Convention centre destroyed by bombs, Baghdad, Iraq.ART29752.007
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Bombed highway south of Basrah, near the Kuwaiti border
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Maker: Connor, Kevin
Tank, debris and a generally desolate environment of the highway south of Basrah.ART29752.052
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Bombed highway south of Basrah, rusting tanks, broken car and self drawing
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Maker: Connor, Kevin
A broken car and tanks along a desolate highway south of Basrah, with the sun omitting from above.ART29752.053
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Bombed Ministry of Justice building
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Maker: Connor, Kevin
Two small figures in the foreground, dwarfed by an enormous building, the Ministry of Justice building, which has been partly destroyed.ART29752.022
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Bombed Ministry of Justice building
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Maker: Connor, Kevin
The destroyed Ministry of Justice building in Baghdad. A tall palm tree stands beside the building and people walk on the path in front of the bombed structure.ART29752.023
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Bound for Baghdad
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Maker: Bowen, Dean
Depicts a bomber flying towards buildings in Baghdad. The work was created in response to the First Gulf War(1990-91). The image depicts a high-tech weapon (bomber plane) used in this war in a simpli...ART92077
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Broken bridge bombed near Basrah
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Maker: Connor, Kevin
Scene near Basrah, Iraq of a broken bridge and surrounding debris.ART29752.044
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Collateral Damage
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Maker: Kostelnik, Dragan
This scene is one of chaos and damage. The foreground is depicted as a desolate place, with animals roaming freely. The horizon is littered with fires and dominated by the smoke they are producing. Th...ART90692
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Dawn and the road from Baghdad to Karbala and Najaf
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Maker: Connor, Kevin
Monotonous road scene near Baghdad. No vehicles or people are evident and identical palm trees line the road. Completed in red crayon and black ink, the thin short crayon markings give the work a sens...ART29752.024
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Deadly calculations
Art
Maker: Unknown Time Australia Magazine
Depicts a broadsheet of a 'Time Australia' magazine cover from 18 February 1991. The headline reads 'Deadly Calculations, The Ground Assault - When and how'. Below the headline is an image of three...ARTV09168
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Dichotomy: fighting for oil, fighting with oil
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Maker: Kostelnik, Dragan
The significance of this print is not so much in the image itself, but rather in the theme which the artist intends to illustrate. The title 'Dichotomy: fighting for oil, fighting with oil' illustrate...ART90693
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Eight small drawings around Baghdad
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Maker: Connor, Kevin
Eight drawings of varying sizes taped onto the one sheet, showing a myriad of scenes including people, buildings, vehicles including a taxi, and civilians, some injured.ART29752.060
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End of the hostage crisis
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Maker: Leahy, Sean
Depicts three people, dying of thirst, crawling along the sand in the desert, with a mirage on the horizon revealing the words 'End of the Hostage Crisis'. This satirical cartoon was created by Sean L...ART90077
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[Environmental catastrophe in the Gulf...and in Australia]
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Maker: Leahy, Sean Leahy, Sean
A cartoon drawn for publication in the Melbourne 'Herald' newspaper in 1991 related to the environmental damage in the First Gulf War. The cartoon depicts the burning oil fields and oil covered birds ...ART90048
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Faces in Basrah that speak of dreadful memories
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Maker: Connor, Kevin
Tortured-looking face standing over a (presumably dead) body, which is crouched to the ground, legs bent and arms spread out.ART29752.046
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Factory strike
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Maker: Kostelnik, Dragan
This print depicts a factory as seen through the view finder in an aircraft. The title of the print, Factory Strike, suggest that the factory is the target in an imminent air strike.ART90713
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First morning, Baghdad
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Maker: Connor, Kevin
Scene inside a building in Baghdad. A man stand with his right arm in the air. Distorted figures, including one with a cage around their head occupy the foreground.ART29752.005
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First signs of war, Amman to Baghdad
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Maker: Connor, Kevin
A bombed highway and transmitter station in the road to Baghdad.ART29752.002
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Fleeing Kuwait City
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Maker: Kostelnik, Dragan
An armoured vehicle traveling through the Kuwait landscape, passing parachutes, water towers and fields.ART90700
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Game - Play - January 17 - 2.44 am - 1991: (S)tealth; (I)mplements of destruction; (G)round briefing; (N)ose up; (I)n flight; (F)ix target engagement; (Y)eah
Art
Maker: Sheerer, Doug
Sculpture consisting of seven parts (wooden boxes) comprising one work of art, which comments on the round-the-clock bombing of Baghdad during the First Gulf War (1990-91). A printmaker and sculptor, ...ART90244
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Go on...step over that line!
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Maker: Leahy, Sean
Depicts a cartoon of a large foot and leg, wearing trousers with the pattern of the United States of America flag, stepping over a line onto the small figure of Saddam Hussein. This satirical cartoon ...ART90074
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Green, Lieutenant Colonel Clifford M. Acree, Iraq, 1991
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Maker: Fairskye, Merilyn
Portrait of Lieutenant Colonel Clifford M. Acree, U.S. Marine Corps., taken as Prisoner of War (P.O.W.) January 1991, Iraq. A Red Cross plane carrying 35 former allied prisoners of war, including 15 A...ART29701
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Guards and officer outside Mosque, Najaf
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Maker: Connor, Kevin
Five soldiers sprawled on the ground outside the entrance to a Mosque in Najaf. An is beside them, seated at a desk.ART29752.039
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Gulf
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Maker: Watson, Judy
Depicts three oil wells burning in a flat Kuwait landscape, filling the horizon with smoke. Anne Gray notes of this work; 'Judy Watson provided an environmental perspective on the [First] Gulf War. He...ART29731
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Gulf
Art
Maker: McKay, Brian
The invasion of Kuwait by Iraq on 2 August 1990 paved the way for the formation of a multinational force comprising 40,000 troops from thirty countries which would enforce United Nations Security Coun...ART92785
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Hounds
Art
Maker: Gittoes, George Noel Studio One: Print making workshop
Three dogs tearing apart an oil covered seabird. Gittoes wrote of this work: 'Hounds refers to the old symbol the dogs of war. The combatants in this conflict, symbolised by the dogs, are not tearing ...ART29720
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How to eliminate the ' Wimp Factor' by George Bush
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Maker: Leahy, Sean
Depicts a cartoon of a rocket, with the face of United States President, George Bush, on it flying through the air.The rocket is flying up the corner of a graph that measures the President's popularit...ART90075
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Hussein vs. Bush
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Maker: Sharpe, Ian
Depicts a boxing ring, with the two competitors being the United States President, George Bush Snr and the other Sadaam Hussein. Stock exchange workers are madly pointing, a state of chaos reflected ...ARTC00074
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Inside General Hospital, Basrah
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Maker: Connor, Kevin
Patients waiting inside a hospital, standing, sitting and lying down, as well as people on crutches.ART29752.050
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Interview at the Ministry of Information building
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Maker: Connor, Kevin
Four figures sitting in front of another person, who is standing up. There is a portrait of the wall while a window shows buildings beyond. The building is the Ministry of Information and the four f...ART29752.006
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Into Kuwait
Art
Maker: Unknown Time Australia Magazine
Depicts a broadsheet of a 'Time Australia' magazine cover from issue 9, 4 March 1991. Below the headline 'Into Kuwait: Tightening the noose around Saddam' is a soldier with a missile launcher on his ...ARTV09164
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Israel
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Maker: Leahy, Sean
Depicts a cartoon of saddam Hussein standing between crumbling columns, with a lintel above it, about to fall on his head, with the word 'Israel' on it. This satirical cartoon was created by Sean Leah...ART90067
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Jag tally
Art
Maker: Kostelnik, Dragan
This image depicts the side of a plane on which bombs have been painted. Pilots drew such images on the sides of their planes as a way of tallying their missions and documenting respective achievement...ART90696
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Jets and suburbia, Basrah
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Maker: Connor, Kevin
Portrait of a screaming man's face. His mouth is wide open, and he has his hand to his chin. Bomb damaged buildings surround him, with black smoke emerging from the wreckage. The man depicted is mo...ART29752.049
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Journey across southern Iraq
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Maker: Connor, Kevin
A scene of largely unidentified objects such as planes bombing landscape below, debris, roads and houses. The work is extensively water damaged.ART29752.042
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Journey across southern Iraq
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Maker: Connor, Kevin
A tank on other unidentifiable objects including debris, in southern Iraq.ART29752.043
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Karbala had the stench of awful happenings
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Maker: Connor, Kevin
Three bodies in the foreground, uniformly arrange and crouched over, presumably dead. In the background are several bodies piled on top of one another. There are no other markings in the work.ART29752.030
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Khafji
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Maker: Kostelnik, Dragan
This image depicts a chaotic street scene in Khafji. The artist has utilised the medium in such a way as to de-harmonise the viewing experience through the sharp edges and hard, defined lines.ART90703
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Khafji, colour panorama
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Maker: Kostelnik, Dragan
A street scene in Khafji. There is a tank on the road in the foreground; it heads towards a cluster of buildings, to the left of which is the source of the billowing, black smoke that dominates the sk...ART90710
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Khafji (verticle)
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Maker: Kostelnik, Dragan
The smoke from an explosion in the background billows into the foreground and over a road which is lit by street lamps. The road heading in the direction of the explosion is deserted, whilst the other...ART90718
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Kuwait
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Maker: Faulkner, Patrick
Depicts a silhouette of a helicopter flying over a landscape with palm trees below. The centre of the image consists of topographical patterns and patterns derived from radar screens. The image relate...ART90171
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Kuwait city
Art
Maker: Unknown Time Australia Magazine
Depicts a broadsheet of a 'Time Australia' magazine cover from 11 March 1991. Below the headline 'Kuwait City' a group of soldiers hoist an American flag in the air. The soldiers are elated celebrat...ARTV09165
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Kuwait is burning: the liberated nation seethes with anger and anguish
Art
Maker: Unknown Time Australia Magazine
Depicts a broadsheet of a 'Time Australia' magazine cover from issue 11, 18 March 1991. Below the headline 'Kuwait is Burning' is a burning oil well. The oil well is one of many that were set alight ...ARTV09163
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...love him or loathe him- ol' Saddam is doing wonders for the ozone layer!
Art
Maker: Leahy, Sean
Depicts two office workers walking along a footpath past a petrol station, which is selling petrol at seventy cents per litre. This satirical cartoon was created by Sean Leahy in response to the First...ART90079
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Meanwhile, in the Gulf...
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Maker: Sharpe, Ian
Depicts five large ships at sea, with a small tug boat in front. The 'title' caption reads 'Meanwhile in the Gulf....'. Words are being shouted from each of the ships 'Gentlemen she's mine'; 'Take a...ARTC00072
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Missile Harry (The Gulf War)
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Maker: Sibley, Andrew John
Depicts a man in uniform wearing a cap standing and holding a missile in his arms. Below the image are the words 'Fold "Missile Harry" here' with dashes marking where to cut. The work is intended to r...ART29621
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Mother and child
Art
Maker: Gittoes, George Noel Studio One: Print making workshop
A woman cradling a child on the shoreline, while bent rods surround her, the ghost of a dog leaps over her and United Nations ships sail in the Gulf . Gittoes wrote of this image: 'One of the most hea...ART29721
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Mutla ridge
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Maker: Kostelnik, Dragan
One in a series of three prints on the theme of Mutla Ridge.; this is an abstract arrangement of various transportation vehicles including cars and busses, paired with strong colours, form a richly te...ART90716
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Mutla ridge
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Maker: Kostelnik, Dragan
One in a series of three prints on the theme of Mutla Ridge; this print is an abstract, black and white arrangement of cars, trucks and busses which illustrates the chaotic and unordered nature of lif...ART90715
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Mutla ridge
Art
Maker: Kostelnik, Dragan
One in a series of three prints on theme of Mutla Ridge; this image depicts an arrangement of various vehicles in a junkyard-like scene. Buses, cars and trucks are arranged to form an abstract pattern...ART90714
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My first counting book
Art
Maker: Evans, Roslyn Evans, Ros
An artist's book, opening like a concertina to reveal a silhoutted image and a number on each page; 1 USA flag, 2 tanks, 3 bombers, 4 bombs, 5 Pentagon buildings (or grenades?), 6 bombs, 7 Stealth bom...ART90168
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Najaf devastation
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Maker: Connor, Kevin
Partially destroyed buildings, including a mosque.ART29752.031
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Najaf devastation near the Mosque
Art
Maker: Connor, Kevin
Partially destroyed buildings, with a truck in the foreground.ART29752.032
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Night battle
Art
Maker: Bowen, Dean
Depicts an Army tank on the ground below flying planes. The work was created by the artist in response to the First Gulf War (1990-91). The image depicts high-tech weapons (tanks, planes) used in thi...ART90097
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Night raid, Bagdad
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Maker: Faulkner, Patrick
Depicts the silhouette of a US F16 fighter-interceptor aircraft superimposed on a map marked with various directional symbols . Above this is a silhouetted night skyline with weapons, explosions and ...ART90170
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Night vision I
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Maker: Boynes, Robert
This is the first in a three-part series of works commenting on the use or abuse of technology in the First Gulf War (1990-91), and on television viewers' detachment from the war. The series depicts a...ART90257.001
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Night vision II
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Maker: Boynes, Robert
This is the second in a three-part series of works commenting on the use or abuse of technology in the First Gulf War (1990-91), and on television viewers' detachment from the war. The series depicts ...ART90257.002
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Night vision III
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Maker: Boynes, Robert
This is the third in a three-part series of works commenting on the use or abuse of technology in the First Gulf War (1990-91), and on television viewers' detachment from the war. The series depicts a...ART90257.003
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Night vision I, II & III
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Maker: Boynes, Robert
A three-part series of works commenting on the use or abuse of technology in the First Gulf War (1990-91) , and on television viewers' detachment from the war. The series depicts an infra-red camera v...ART90257
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Oil slick
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Maker: Gittoes, George Noel Studio One: Print making workshop
A seabird covered in oil, with burning oil rigs in the background. Gittoes wrote: 'This image was a response to the television footage of the environmental damage when Iraq allowed oil to spill into t...ART29722
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Old woman in the town square at Najaf
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Maker: Connor, Kevin
Left profile of an old woman, accentuated wrinkled face and body, her legs and arms obscured by heavy clothing, walking by buildings.ART29752.035
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Operation desert storm: support our troops USA
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Maker: Unknown Active Screen Graphics
A poster relating to Operation 'Desert Storm' and promoting the support of American troops serving in the First Gulf War (1990-91). The poster depicts the head of an eagle in the background and an Ame...ARTV09159
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Operation desert storm: we support our troops in the Persian Gulf: come home soon
Art
Maker: Unknown Unknown
A poster promoting the support of American troops serving as part of Operation 'Desert Storm' during the First Gulf War (1990-91). The poster shows an American flag. Words at the bottom left of the po...ARTV09161
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People of Iraq do not flinch!
Art
Maker: Leahy, Sean
Depicts two portraits of Saddam Hussein, on television, advising the Iraqi people to resist American troops. This satirical cartoon was created by Sean Leahy in response to the First Gulf War (1990-19...ART90068
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5 p.m. broken down bus 300 kms from Baghdad
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Maker: Connor, Kevin
A truck, possibly belonging to the red cross, stopped in the middle of the road. A man is moving a tire while figures walk along the road. A close-up of a man's face is in the foreground.ART29752.003
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Purple, Warrant Officer Guy Hunter Jr, Iraq, 1991
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Maker: Fairskye, Merilyn
Fairskye has depicted a portrait of Warrant Officer Guy Hunter Jr, an American officer who served in Iraq and had 4 tours of duty in Vietnam. The right side of Hunter’s face is in a realistic style,...ART29702
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Rambo lives
Art
Maker: Leahy, Sean
Depicts a caricature of the United States President, George Bush Snr, climbing up behind a cardboard cut out of Rambo, suggesting that he will appear as a great warrior in order to win the United Nati...ART90071
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Red Cross trucks waiting at the Iraqi-Jordanian border on the way back to Amman
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Maker: Connor, Kevin
A man standing near two red cross trucks, with a road in the foreground.ART29752.055
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Republican Guard officer, Najaf
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Maker: Connor, Kevin
A guard standing in front a buildings, including a Mosque.ART29752.038
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Road block and tanks surrounding Karbala
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Maker: Connor, Kevin
Street scene near Karbala, Iraq. Soldiers and civilians surround a road block, bordered by tanks and other vehicles. The artist has used quick brushstrokes, making it impossible to define more speci...ART29752.025
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Roadside Kuwait
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Maker: Kostelnik, Dragan
Six figures are depicted in Roadside Kuwait. Their relationship to each other is unclear. The two furtherst figures are soldiers. However, it is unclear who those in the foreground represent, and whet...ART90691
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Rusting tank
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Maker: Connor, Kevin
Tank and debris in the foreground, and a bridge and road in the background.ART29752.054
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Saddam Hussein on a rhinoceros
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Maker: Hawkes, Gay
This is one of a series of works by the sculptor Gay Hawkes, called 'Rushing off to the Gulf', dealing with Australia's willingness to support greater powers in their conflicts. It depicts 'Saddam Hus...ART41010
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Self-portrait, drawing in Iraq
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Maker: Connor, Kevin
Man in a hat, the artist, Kevin Connor, stands in front of a desolate landscape, containing a tank and some rubbish.ART29752.051
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Share Prices
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Maker: Leahy, Sean
Depicts an image of a graph with share prices rising and falling according to the whims of the US media. This satirical cartoon was created by Sean Leahy in response to the First Gulf War (1990-1991)....ART90066
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Sitting duck
Art
Maker: Evans, Roslyn
Depicts a frieze of images of duck's heads and peace symbols, interwoven with barbed wire in various colours. The 'Sitting Duck' work of art is one of nine friezes completed by the artist that relate ...ART90174.003
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Sitting duck
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Maker: Evans, Roslyn
Depicts a frieze of images of duck's heads and peace symbols, interwoven with barbed wire in various colours. The 'Sitting Duck' work of art is one of nine friezes completed by the artist that relate ...ART90174.002