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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 |
Study for "News" - 1991
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.