Study for "News" - 1991

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Accession Number ART90374
Collection type Art
Measurement Overall: 38 x 56.4 cm
Object type Work on paper
Physical description synthetic polymer paint, charcoal and watercolour on paper
Maker Senbergs, Jan
Place made Australia: Victoria, Melbourne
Date made 1991
Conflict Gulf War, 1990-1991
Copyright

Item copyright: AWM Licensed copyright

Description

Depicts the silhouette of a cameraman on the right filming a contorted mass made up of a city, buildings and various machinery parts. Senbergs' work comments not only on the encroachment of machines on human values and the landscape, but the 'devastation of the environment and the dehumanisation of mankind during the war', as well as commenting on the voyeuristic role of the television reporter during the First Gulf War in 1991.