A Studio Based Art Project “War on Terror” Trading Cards Granville Lythe
Ra?onale • Produce a set of trading cards based on events leading up to the 9/11 aFacks on the United States. • Look at underlying implica?ons surrounding the conflict • Highligh?ng deten?on centre's and the treatment of Terrorist • Add a spin on media propaganda
Inspira?on • • • •
Theories of Noam Chomsky Artwork of Norman Saunders Roman?c Sublime The Gothic
How it links • • • •
Images from interna?onal news photos Painted over subverted with Gothic terror. Adding key ?tles and texts Ques?oning our percep?on of a contemporary conflict problem.
Research Ar?st Norman Saunders • Saunders produced Trading card set in the Six?es based on World War 2. hFp://www.normansaunders.com/baFletbs1.html • The Cards were poli?cally pro America • Some cards were banned for being too graphic with their depic?ons of death and destruc?on. • Some cards became even more collec?ble and created an underground market.
Research • Noam Chomsky • Immanuel Kant • Edmund Burke
Research Theorist Noam Chomsky • Manufacturing consent • Quote • “When the state looses the bludgeon... you have to control what people think. And the standard way to do this is to resort to what in more honest days used to be called propaganda.”
Research Theorist Edmund Burke • Quote • “The only thing necessary for the triumph of evil is for good men to do nothing.” Edmund Burke • A Philosophical Enquiry into the Origin of Our Ideas of the Sublime and Beau?ful
Research Theorist Immanuel Kant • Quote • “Even philosophers will praise war as ennobling mankind, forge[ng the Greek who said: War is bad in that it begets more evil than it kills. Immanuel Kant”
The Sublime • The sublime? • The Sublime is what has the power to compel and destroy us.
Bibliography • Websites • hFp://www.normansaunders.com/ baFletbs1.html Books • Burke, E. (2002) On the sublime and beau/ful, New York, P.F Collier and Son. • Herman E.S. Chomsky, N (1994) Manufacturing Consent, London, Vintage.