The Hiroshima Panels are a remarkable artistic exploration of trauma
- Written by Barbara Hartley, Honorary Senior Lecturer, The University of Queensland
XIV Crows (からす) by Maruki Iri and Maruki Toshi, 1972Courtesy the Maruki GalleryOn August 6, 1945, the US military obliterated Hiroshima with the world’s first deployed nuclear bomb. Several days later, artist Maruki Iri arrived in his hometown from Tokyo by train. Stunned by the devastation, he felt he was seeing...
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