Disappeared
- Mixed Media
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35.5 x 45.5 x 1.75 in (framed)
(90.17 x 115.57 x 4.45 cm)
- Johanna Vogelsang
Thank you to the Eyerman family--artist Johanna Vogelsang’s daughter Kirsten Eyerman, her granddaughter Kyra Eyerman, and her son-in-law Edward Eyerman--for the generous donation of this work.
Also, thank you to the Hudson County Office of Cultural Affairs and Tourism for the generous grant to mount this exhibit of works by Johanna Vogelsang dealing with Social Justice.
The views expressed in this work are solely those of the artist, and do not reflect the views of Hudson County Community College, the Hudson County Community College Foundation, anyone working at this college, or any local, state or government organization.
In this work, the artist is educating about the tragedy of the “Disappeared” in Argentina. The work includes images and text that refer to the over 30,000 people who were kidnapped, tortured and murdered in Argentina from the late 1960s-1980s. Called the “Disappeared” (los desaparecidos) these people were killed because they did not express right-wing political opinions. Right-wing military and death squads “disappeared” members of the church, college students, members of unions, teachers, artists and intellectuals, among many others. Ask your professor about how to research and find out more about the Disappeared in Argentina.
The text on this mixed media work includes words from Mahatma Gandhi (1869-1948), “East, West, state terrorism occurs when speculators, confronting a threat of severe economic dislocation, exploit fear to prevent the compassionate turn to Democratic Socialism… to possess arms implies fear, even cowardice. Nonviolence requires fearlessness…enemies are converted into friends.” Gandhi inspired people all over the world with his vision of nonviolent civil disobedience. He helped to lead his country, India, to independence from British Rule in 1947.
One of the things that has been historically true about massacres is that eventually massacres stop. Important educational questions about this include: How can we learn from history to understand what stops massacres? Can they be prevented? What does Gandhi's example tell us about possibilities for non-violent social change?
- Framed: 35.5 x 45.5 x 1.75 in (90.17 x 115.57 x 4.45 cm)
- Created: 1980
- Current Location: 2 Enos Place - 3rd Floor
- Collections: Art that Includes Writing, Mixed Media, Portrait or Figurative, The Totalitarian State, Works by Women