Why do we make violent art – and what does it say about the artist?
- Written by: Jacqueline Millner, Professor in Visual Arts, La Trobe University
El Tres de Mayo by Francisco de GoyaWikimedia CommonsThe sensationalised media coverage of the recent suspected mushroom poisonings in regional Victoria expanded last week, to include children’s scribblings on a wall.
The pictures, which comprised stick figures, rudimentary drawings and text that referenced death and dying, were removed last...
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