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Sandow Birk's fantasy paintings of the Iraq War

Mark Frauenfelder at 10:53 am Wed, Mar 21, 2007

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LA Weekly has a large PDF of The Liberation of Iraq, a painting by Sandow Birk. 200703211052

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...Birk has made a number of paintings, including The Liberation of Baghdad, seen here. The paintings are more satirical and ironic, and many are based on paintings of the glories of war in Napoleon’s time and from Russian socialist images of battlefield glories.
The Liberation of Baghdad, says Birk, is about “what we were told would happen -- happy, joyfully liberated Iraqis welcoming American troops as we free them from the shackles of oppression.”

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