wed adult viewings. Jake and Dinos Chapman made the decision to recreate some of the most powerful etchings that capture every horror imaginable. They were a series of 80 prints. In these images, Goya's perspective is small-scale, focusing strongly on the suffering and heroism of individuals. His prints are among the most powerful images of war ever created. Goya's images of death are close -up and dramatic, his focus is stagy and human- not political.
             Print from Goya's Disasters of War series Chapman Brothers recreation
             Deeds Against the Dead (1994)
             This series of prints entitled Disasters of War were made in the years 1810-20. 56 of the total were made during the actual conflict and record scenes much as if they are eye-witness accounts. Goya decided against publication of the series, probably because the political situation remained oppressive after the conflict. In 1863 the plates were used for the printing of a first edition.
             At first the Brothers used plastic figurines to display the visions of horror that Goya had recorded in the 19th Century in a miniature three-dimensional form. And one of the scenes was then transferred into a life-size recreation using shop mannequins. This work was presented in the controversial exhibition Sensation (shown between 1997 and 1999 in London, Berlin and New York).
             "The Chapmans' literally play with history: they remake it in plastic. Like a Big toy."
             "The Chapmans' versions of these works are true to every detail: hand tinted etchings, the have a historical authenticity, and a certain styl
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