Impossible Empathy: The Non-Documentary War Art of Shaun Gladwell

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Impossible Empathy: The Non-Documentary War Art of Shaun Gladwell

Shaun Gladwell is an Australian video installation artist whose practice is concerned with the bodily gesture and motion. In 2009, Gladwell was appointed an Official War Artist by the Australian War Memorial, and was sent to Afghanistan and the Middle East to create a body of work about the frontli...

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Main Author:	Messham-Muir, Kit
Format:	Journal Article
Published:	2014
Online Access:	http://hdl.handle.net/20.500.11937/80786

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