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The shootings of may 3, 1808
- 1. The Shootings of May 3, 1808, 1814, Goya
- 4. Guernica, detail, Picasso, 1937
- 5. Gloomy Presentiments of Things to Come, Goya
- 6. That Always Happens, Goya
- 8. And They Were Like Wild Beasts, Goya
- 9. They do Not Want to, Goya
- 10. And Nor Do These, Goya
- 11. Nor They, Goya
- 12. This Brings You Luck, Goya
- 14. With Reason or Without, Goya
- 15. Women Give Courage, Goya
- 16. The Charnel House, 1944-45, Picasso
- 17. Meeting Madman at Midnight, 1924, Dix
- 18. Never Again War, 1924, Kollwitz
- 19. Native Carrying Some Guns, Bibles, and Amorites on Safari, Basquiat, 1982
- 20. The History of Black People, Basquiat, no date
Editor's Notes
- In Native Carrying Some Guns, Bibles, Amorites on Safari, the theme of black labour at the service of its own exploitation is depicted by the image of a stylised Negro carrying a crate above his head (with the words ROYAL SALT INC© written across the front of it), standing beside a gun-toting “bwana“ in a penile safari hat. Basquiat further ironises this depiction in the accompanying (capitalised) text: COLONIZATION: PART TWO IN A SERIES and GOOD MONEY IN SAVAGES. A reference to animal skins is made ambiguous in the rendering of $KIN$, which suggests that the “animals“ being hunted/exploited by the POACHERS/MISSIONARIES are black.