- Repetition
- Catalogue raisonné no. 678
- Artist's CR 617
- 2005
- Kinkell
- Oil on canvas
- 36 x 32 inches / 91 x 81 cm
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Gerald Laing: From 1963 to the Present, Bourne Fine Art, Edinburgh, 2004chevron_right
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Gerald Laing: Iraq War Paintings, Kings College, Cambridge, 2005chevron_right
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Gerald Laing: Iraq War Paintings, Spike Gallery, New York, 2005chevron_right
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Gerald Laing, 'Artist’s Notes on War Paintings', unpublished manuscript, 2004chevron_right
Selected Citations and Comments
In the pre-industrial period two identical items were an expensive luxury. After mass-production was established, the converse was the case.
The PR machine for Bush’s re-election campaign made the mistake of grouping identical twins and triplets in The Service as a backdrop to a photo-op: the media erroneously assumed that the image had been doctored. Naturally, the Bush administration was merely trying to appeal to a pre-industrial electorate… Repeating images of soldiers in order to give the impression that there are more of them results, rather worryingly, in actual humans becoming a virtual army. It is also a lie., 'Artist's Notes on War Paintings', unpublished manuscript, 2004