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Art's Unfighting Feelings

2001
We have chosen to describe all the sorrow and the anguish that war causes through the work of: - writers such as Bertolt Brecht ("Generale: il tuo carro armato h una macchina potente", "La guerra che verr`", "Canzon di Madre Coraggio"), Giuseppe Ungaretti ("Soldati", "Veglia" and "San Martino del Carso"), Salvatore Quasimodo ("Uomo del mio tempo" and "Alle fronde dei salici"), Primo Levi (with his Shem`) and even Tacitus (a passage taken from "Agricola") and Verglius (a passage taken from "Eneide"); - artists such as Picasso ("Guernica"), Renato Guttuso ("Crocifissione" and "La fucilazione in campagna"), Umberto Boccioni ("Citt` che sale") and last but not least Henry Moore (Prospettiva di rifugio che sale"); - singers such as Joan Baez, Bob Dylan (with the song "Masters of war"), John Lennon ("Imagine"), Pink Floyd, Dire Straits ("Brothers in arms"), De Andrh ("La guerra di Piero"), De Gregori ("Generale"), Guccini ("Dio h morto"); - directors with their movies such as "Platoon", "Full metal jacket", "Apocalypse now", "La grande guerra", "Roma citt` aperta", "Soldato blu", "The great dictator", "Uomini contro", "Vincitori e vinti" (original title "Judgement at Nuremberg") that are related to the First and the Second World War, the Vietnam war, the Thirty Years War and the Civil American War. We mean to talk about all the wars and no one at the same time.