2010.54.1583

For the Artist Layla Al Attar
2003
17.00 in HIGH x 11.00 in WIDE
(43.18 cm HIGH x 27.94 cm WIDE)
All Of Us Or None Archive. Gift of the Rossman Family.
2010.54.1583

Bottom left corner of drawing has "NS'03".

Top of poster has the text: "For The Artist Layla Al Attar / Killed By A Cruise Missile Attack On Baghdad in 1997". Below the poster has a stylized drawing of a male soldier sitting on the ground with his back against a ruined wall, to his left the wall has a mural with a female figure holding paint brushes and the text: "Make Art Not War / Layla Al Attar". There is a thought bubble above the soldier's head with the text: "?". In the background another wall is burning, this wall has the text: "Welcome / To Baghdad / Have A / Nice Day...". In the sky there is a helicopter. The bottom of the poster has the text: "And All in Iraq And Afghanistan / Who Die under American Bombs". This was one of a 12-poster set produced as a collaborative project between two magazines, Clamor and Faesthetic. [LMC]
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