Das weltberühmte Museum in Madrid hat die Corona-Pause für eine Neusortierung des Kanons genutzt. Nun richtet sich der Blick auch auf die düsteren Seiten des Kolonialismus. In den neuen Sälen erlebt man Trauer, Tod und Drama.
Kent Monkman s The Scream: Images that define atrocities
By Karen Burshtein7th July 2021
Some paintings have become the defining images of a social or political catastrophe. But can art really shape the narrative of war and atrocity, asks Karen Burshtein.
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Canadian Cree artist Kent Monkman s graphic and gut-wrenching painting The Scream (2017) depicts a chaotic scene. Mothers are held back by the Royal Canadian Mounted Police (Mounties) as they lunge toward their children, who have been snatched from their arms by Catholic priests. That scene encapsulates the anguish of the all-too real history of aggressive assimilation that saw children torn away from their families and taken to residential schools, and where untold other abuses, physical and sexual, took place. The practice was in effect from the 1880s to the 1990s, led by the Catholic Church with the approbation of the Canadian government.
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