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[AC] Mead Art Museum at Amherst College; [HC] Hampshire College Art Gallery;
[HD] Historic Deerfield; [MH] Mount Holyoke College Art Museum; [MH SK] The Joseph Allen Skinner Museum at Mount Holyoke College; [SC] Smith College Museum of Art; [UM] University Museum of Contemporary Art at UMASS Amherst

Description:
An expressionistic depiction of the bombinb of Beirut which was part of the Lebanon War and took place during the summer of 1982. Rocket fire enters from the top right of the image and hits the shoreline buildings causing a massive explosion on the left and center.

Tags:
abstract; cities; urban; violence; water; wars; conflict; buildings; bombs; reflection

Link to share this object record:
https://museums.fivecolleges.edu/detail.php?t=objects&type=ext&id_number=AC+2018.112

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