This gut-churning metal corpse is the true art of the Iraq war | Jonathan Jones

Jonathan Jones @ MediaGuardian - on 13/9/10
Jeremy Deller Loading... , in conveying the scale of violence unleashed by the invasion, does something no other artist has achievedIt seems astonishing now, a historical image from another age - like crowds cheering the outbreak of hostilities in August 1914 - that in the early years of the wars in Iraq and Afghanistan, western armies took war artists with them. One embedded American artist painted troops r...
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Jeremy Deller, in conveying the scale of violence unleashed by the invasion, does something no other artist has achieved.

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