Bomb After Bomb, by Elin O’Hara Slavick, with a foreword by radical historian Howard Zinn, includes 48 color plates of Slavick’s drawing series Protesting Cartography: Places The United States Has Bombed.
The artist worked from military surveillance imagery, aerial photographs, battle plans, maps and mass media sources, using gouache, ink, watercolor, graphite and other media on paper, to render these depictions of bombed sites.
She has coupled each with a brief text (just a few lines) describing the history of the bombing, while elsewhere in the book, art historian Carol Mavor and anthropologist Catherine Lutz weigh in at greater length on the larger issues of history, context, art, and activism that Slavick uncovers.
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