Sandow Birk, Triumph of Hate.

This is great work for this time. It’s crude and violent, but done in the service of portraying the greed and brutality of its era. However, I am not sure that all of Birk’s art would survive a lack of context. It’s deeply grounded in knowledge of American politics, culture, and history. The only downside of avoiding heroes and myths is that the imagery becomes too precise to easily travel across time and place.                

                                                                                                                  -hyperallergic


i think this may travel time and place like other work of other brutal times has traveled to the present, like goya, say. the clothes and the faces change, and the slogans and the flags, but the brutality and greed transcend this place and time, and the good thing of that is, life and art do too.