In this talk - hosted by City Lights Booksellers - Professor Michael Iarocci discusses his recent publication The Art of Witnessing: Francisco de Goya's Disasters of War (December 2022, University of Toronto Press) with Professor Darcy Crimaldo Grisby.
The Art of Witnessing provides a new accont of Goya's print series by taking readers through the fort-seven prints he dedicated to the violence of war. Drawing on facets of Goya’s artistry rarely considered together before, the book challenges the notion that documentary realism and historical testimony were his primary aims. Michael Iarocci argues that while the depiction of war’s atrocities was central to Goya’s project, the lasting power of the print series stems from the artist’s complex moral and aesthetic meditations on the subject.
Access the full conversation here: https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=jGMlTq2W3-g
