overview
“A poet’s work is to name the unnamable, to point at frauds, to take sides, start arguments, shape the world, and stop it from going to sleep.” – Salman Rushdie, 1989
Taking Sides explores the tradition of social critique in modern and contemporary art. Drawn from the Madison Museum of Contemporary Art permanent collection, its title is taken from a quote of Salman Rushdie, the renowned novelist and essayist.
Artwork
Demonstration, Glenwood, Minnesota
1985
Thomas Frederick Arndt
Demonstration, State Capitol, St. Paul, Minnesota
1986
Thomas Frederick Arndt
Demonstration, St. Paul, Minnesota
1986
Thomas Frederick Arndt
Demonstration, St. Paul, Minnesota
1985
Thomas Frederick Arndt
Welcome to Siberia, The Nuclear Freeze, The Flat Earth Society, No Nukes and The Dark Ages (When the Earth Was Flat and the Evening Sun Was Red From Looking Down Into Hell)
1983
Roger Brown
Víctima del bombardeo / Aerial Bombing Casualty
c. 1939
José Chávez Morado
A History of Printmaking: Goya Analyzes the News
1975
Warrington Colescott
The History of Printmaking: Goya Studies War
1976-1977
Warrington Colescott
The Hunt: First Dawn Stake Out
1981
Warrington Colescott
Tierra y libertad / Land and Freedom
sin fecha / undated
Francisco Dosamantes
How Many Works By Women Artists Were In The Andy Warhol And Tremaine Auctions At Sotheby’s?
Guerrilla Girls
When Racism & Sexism Are No Longer Fashionable, What Will Your Art Collection Be Worth?
1989
Guerrilla Girls
White Light Mystery in a White Light
2000
Brad Kahlhamer
Black Hawk Unit Topography + Terrain
2000
Brad Kahlhamer
![Brot! [Bread!]. Artist: Käthe Kollwitz. Date: 1924. Medium: lithograph.](https://www.mmoca.org/wp-content/uploads/2022/06/1968.1.774.jpg)
![Ende [The End]. Artist: Käthe Kollwitz. Date: 1897. Medium: aquatint and etching and emery.](https://www.mmoca.org/wp-content/uploads/2022/06/1968.1.766.jpg)
![Die Gefangenen [The Prisoners]. Artist: Käthe Kollwitz. Date: 1908. Medium: soft-ground etching.](https://www.mmoca.org/wp-content/uploads/2022/06/1968.1.775-1024x797.jpg)
![Die Pflüger [The Ploughmen]. Artist: Käthe Kollwitz. Date: 1906. Medium: etching and aquatint.](https://www.mmoca.org/wp-content/uploads/2022/06/1968.1.975-1024x722.jpg)
![Losbruch [Outbreak]. Artist: Käthe Kollwitz. Date: 1902. Medium: etching.](https://www.mmoca.org/wp-content/uploads/2022/06/1968.1.981.jpg)
![Schlachtfeld [Battlefield]. Artist: Käthe Kollwitz. Date: 1907. Medium: soft-ground etching.](https://www.mmoca.org/wp-content/uploads/2022/06/1968.1.976-1024x808.jpg)
![Sturm [Riot]. Artist: Käthe Kollwitz. Date: 1897. Medium: etching and emery.](https://www.mmoca.org/wp-content/uploads/2022/06/1970.0.7.jpg)
![Überfahren [Run Over]. Artist: Käthe Kollwitz. Date: 1910. Medium: soft-ground etching.](https://www.mmoca.org/wp-content/uploads/2022/06/1968.1.755-1024x825.jpg)
![Weberzug [March of the Weavers]. Artist: Käthe Kollwitz. Date: 1897. Medium: etching.](https://www.mmoca.org/wp-content/uploads/2022/06/1968.1.767-1024x760.jpg)
Weberzug [March of the Weavers]
1897
Käthe Kollwitz
Inferno: The Heretics-Canto XXVIII
1970
Ronald Kowalke
Inferno: Poor Brethern-Canto XXXII
1970
Ronald Kowalke
Deportación a la muerte / Deportation to Death
1942
Leopoldo Méndez
El rebozo de Soledad / Soledad’s Shawl
1952
Leopoldo Méndez
El franciscano / The Franciscan
1929
José Clemente Orozco
Los siete vicios capitales / The Seven Deadly Sins
c. 1900 (20th-century restrike)
José Guadalupe Posada
They Will Torture You, My Friend
1971
Nancy Spero / Leon Golub
