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The question of violence is a recurrent theme in the work of Nancy Spero (1926-2009): the violence of
war (her memorable War Drawings at the time of the Vietnam War), symbolic or physical violence
against women and minorities (she was one of the first to fight publicly for the place of women in the art
world), the legitimate violence of resistance movements (against the Nazis, against Pinochet) and poetic
and expressive violence (Artaud). Whether she was evoking a specific conflict or producing a transhistorical
summary, Nancy Spero knew how to assemble and combine images taken from a variety of
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