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...these etchings that the Museum's show explores. Four series of his prints comprise most of the show: Tauromaquia (The Art of Bullfighting), and Disparates (Follies--published after Goya's death in 1828), the Caprichos and the Desastres de la Guerra. These last two, especially, complement each other, echoing Goya's experiences in Spanish society, his understanding of the irrational forces that make reason so difficult to express, and his conviction that reason is the only answer to these forces...
...GOYA'S CAPRICHOS expressed the vacuity of life without reason, his Desastres de la Guerra brought out the impossibility of life without reason. The most piercing and disturbing part of the MFA's exhibition is the room devoted to the Desastres. Built on Goya's own experience during the six-year war between Spain and Napoleon's France, the Desastres show the carnage, the stench--the actuality of war. Goya shows no heroes and no villains. No supernatural forces are at work here--the agony and suffering are inflicted by people onto other people, and no one is spared...
This show has brought together prints from Boston, Madrid, Paris, Berlin and London to form the most comprehensive Goya show ever seen in America. It is impressive just to see the Disparates and the Desastres de la Guerra in Goya's working proofs, for these two series were published after his death, and the formal prints have been altered from what Goya meant them to be. But to have these juxtaposed with the Caprichos, and to see how Goya changed his images of human folly over 19 years is an unforgettable experience...
...TONIO GUERRA...
Nevertheless, the momentum toward a peaceful fim à guerra colonial (end to the colonial war) has not been altogether lost. A de facto cease-fire still holds in Guinea, and neither side would rule out a resumption of the talks in the near future. Talks between Frelimo and the Portuguese are still scheduled to resume July 15 in Lusaka, although chances of a cease-fire in Mozambique are slight. As the OAU gathered in Mogadishu last week, Scares appealed to the organization to help settle differences that will arise in Lusaka and Algiers. Its ability to aid is doubtful, however...