Armenian genocide in culture includes the ways in which people have represented the

Armenian genocide The Armenian genocide was the systematic destruction of the Armenians in the Ottoman Empire, Armenian people and identity in the Ottoman Empire during World War I. Spearheaded by the ruling Committee of Union and Progress (CUP), it was ...

of 1915 in art, literature, music, and films. Furthermore, there are dozens of

Armenian genocide memorials Armenian may refer to: * Something of, from, or related to Armenia, a country in the South Caucasus region of Eurasia * Armenians, the national people of Armenia, or people of Armenian descent ** Armenian Diaspora, Armenian communities across the ...

around the world. According to historian Margaret Lavinia Anderson, the Armenian genocide had reached an "iconic status" as "the apex of horrors conceivable" prior to

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Art

The earliest example of the Armenian genocide in art was a medal issued in

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, signifying Russian sympathy for Armenian suffering. It was struck in 1915, as the

massacres A massacre is the killing of a large number of people or animals, especially those who are not involved in any fighting or have no way of defending themselves. A massacre is generally considered to be morally unacceptable, especially when per ...

and deportations were still raging. Since then, dozens of medals in different countries have been commissioned to commemorate the event. The paintings of Armenian-American

Arshile Gorky Arshile Gorky (; born Vostanik Manoug Adoian, hy, Ոստանիկ Մանուկ Ատոյեան; April 15, 1904 – July 21, 1948) was an Armenian-American painter who had a seminal influence on Abstract Expressionism. He spent the last years of his ...

, a seminal figure of

Abstract Expressionism Abstract expressionism is a post–World War II art movement in American painting, developed in New York City in the 1940s. It was the first specifically American movement to achieve international influence and put New York at the center of the ...

, are considered to have been informed by the suffering and loss of the period. In 1915, at age 10, Gorky fled his native

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and escaped to Russian-Armenia with his mother and three sisters, only to have his mother die of starvation in Yerevan in 1919. His two ''The Artist and His Mother'' paintings are based on a photograph with his mother taken in Van. A case study of Gorky's 1946-7 painting ''The Plough and the Song'', reveals central themes of suffering and loss, starvation and hunger, and cultural nostalgia emerge through his biomorphic and organically curvilinear forms representing fertility and nature. Through warm, earthy colors, he paints from memory the fertile agricultural lands of his Armenian homeland. He reconstructs a new hybridized identity in America, an amalgam of visual

cultural practice Cultural practice is the manifestation of a culture or sub-culture, especially in regard to the traditional and customary practices of a particular ethnic or other cultural groups. The term is gaining in importance due to the increased controver ...

of modern art of the

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and wistfulness for the rich culture of the

Armenian people Armenians ( hy, հայեր, ''hayer'' ) are an ethnic group native to the Armenian highlands of Western Asia. Armenians constitute the main population of Armenia and the ''de facto'' independent Artsakh. There is a wide-ranging diaspora ...

, reflected in his paintings. ''The Plough and the Song'' materialize the dialectic of violence and culture in the fractured history of the

. Scholars on Gorky agree that the suffering and loss he experienced during the Armenian genocide strongly informed the production of his

modernist Modernism is both a philosophical and arts movement that arose from broad transformations in Western society during the late 19th and early 20th centuries. The movement reflected a desire for the creation of new forms of art, philosophy, an ...

paintings in America. Comparisons of Gorky's ''The Plough and the Song'' (1946-7) with works of his contemporaries in the field of organic biomorphic abstraction reveal the stark manifestation of his experiences of brutality and horror. Gorky appears to have systematically developed the imagery of the canvas such that many of his

biomorphic Biomorphism models artistic design elements on naturally occurring patterns or shapes reminiscent of nature and living organisms. Taken to its extreme it attempts to force naturally occurring shapes onto functional devices. History Within the c ...

forms appear to be “bleeding,” alluding to the horrors and violence he witnessed during the Armenian genocide. He depicts red far more fluidly, yet systematically. Several of his forms appear to be “bleeding,” given the semblance of a trail of blood that streams down from the inflicted “wounds” on the

forms. Gorky makes liberal use of shading to deliberately draw attention to the fact that these ebbing blots and streams of red are, in fact, bleeding wounds. Yet, the ironic truth in the way Gorky seems to weld his nostalgia for

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and rich heritage with the violent history of

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in a single compositional frame ultimately reflects many Armenians’ own views of their fractured history. There exists a constant dialectic of culture and barbarism in the history of Armenians, where violence persists a theme as constant as the beauty of its culture and its people. Upon coming to America in the aftermath of the Armenian genocide, Gorky reconstructed a new identity for himself, as he changed his name from Vosdanig Manoug Adoian to

, a name that harkened to Georgian-Russian aristocracy and literati of the

Caucasus region The Caucasus () or Caucasia (), is a region between the Black Sea and the Caspian Sea, mainly comprising Armenia, Azerbaijan, Georgia (country), Georgia, and parts of Southern Russia. The Caucasus Mountains, including the Greater Caucasus range ...

. In 1922, he enrolled at the New School of Design in Boston, a city, which at that time, was home to a large immigrant population of

Armenian Americans Armenian Americans ( hy, ամերիկահայեր, ''amerikahayer'') are citizens or residents of the United States who have total or partial Armenian ancestry. They form the second largest community of the Armenian diaspora after Armenians in ...

. When he later moved to

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, where he taught at the

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and the

Grand Central School of Art The Grand Central School of Art was an American art school in New York City, founded in 1923 by the painters Edmund Greacen, Walter Leighton Clark and John Singer Sargent. The school was established and run by the Grand Central Art Galleries, an art ...

, Gorky was thrown into the briskly evolving realm of

modern art Modern art includes artistic work produced during the period extending roughly from the 1860s to the 1970s, and denotes the styles and philosophies of the art produced during that era. The term is usually associated with art in which the tradi ...

. As he began to experiment, his early works began to reflect stylistic elements of

Pablo Picasso Pablo Ruiz Picasso (25 October 1881 – 8 April 1973) was a Spanish painter, sculptor, printmaker, ceramicist and Scenic design, theatre designer who spent most of his adult life in France. One of the most influential artists of the 20th ce ...

and

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. In her book, ''Black Angel: The Life of Archile Gorky'', Armenian scholar Nouritza Matossian likens seminal influences on Gorky's work and style, including Egyptian

funerary art Funerary art is any work of art forming, or placed in, a repository for the remains of the dead. The term encompasses a wide variety of forms, including cenotaphs ("empty tombs"), tomb-like monuments which do not contain human remains, and comm ...

for a pose, Cézanne for flat planar composition, to

Picasso Pablo Ruiz Picasso (25 October 1881 – 8 April 1973) was a Spanish painter, sculptor, printmaker, ceramicist and Scenic design, theatre designer who spent most of his adult life in France. One of the most influential artists of the 20th ce ...

for form and color, and to

Ingres Jean-Auguste-Dominique Ingres ( , ; 29 August 1780 – 14 January 1867) was a French Neoclassicism, Neoclassical Painting, painter. Ingres was profoundly influenced by past artistic traditions and aspired to become the guardian of academic ...

for simplicity of line and smoothness. These eclectic attributes that seeped into Gorky's paintings show the struggle he endured to become recognized by drawing influence from other great masters. Through the

Westernization Westernization (or Westernisation), also Europeanisation or occidentalization (from the ''Occident''), is a process whereby societies come under or adopt Western culture in areas such as industry, technology, science, education, politics, economi ...

of Armenian painting, Gorky was able to communicate his worldview: his memories of the fertile, natural beauty of an idyllic agricultural lifestyle in

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, a beauty ruptured by the horrors of bloodshed and violence inflicted by the Armenian genocide on his people. His symbolic depictions of bleeding female fertility against a backdrop of chaos communicate his artistic worldview of how the Late

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ravaged a

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empire An empire is a "political unit" made up of several territories and peoples, "usually created by conquest, and divided between a dominant center and subordinate peripheries". The center of the empire (sometimes referred to as the metropole) ex ...

clean of

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and religious diversity. The dialectic of beauty and violence is one that frames his worldview on representations of genocide through Westernized Armenian painting. Contemporary Armenian-American artist Mher Khachatryan (b.1983) has produced a series of works to raise awareness of the Armenian genocide.

Literature

Several eyewitness accounts of the events were published, notably those of Swedish missionary Alma Johansson and U.S. Ambassador

Henry Morgenthau, Sr. Henry Morgenthau (; April 26, 1856 – November 25, 1946) was a German-born American lawyer and businessman, best known for his role as the United States Ambassador to Turkey, ambassador to the Ottoman Empire during World War I. Morgenthau was on ...

German medic

Armin Wegner Armin Theophil Wegner (October 16, 1886 – May 17, 1978) was a German soldier and medic in World War I, a prolific author, and a human rights activist. Stationed in the Ottoman Empire during World War I, Wegner was a witness to the Armenian geno ...

wrote several books about the events he witnessed while stationed in the Ottoman Empire. Years later, having returned to Germany, Wegner was imprisoned for opposing Nazism, and his books were burnt by the Nazis. Probably the best known literary work on the Armenian genocide is

Franz Werfel Franz Viktor Werfel (; 10 September 1890 – 26 August 1945) was an Austrian-Bohemian novelist, playwright, and Poetry, poet whose career spanned World War I, the Interwar period, and World War II. He is primarily known as the author of ''Th ...

's 1933 ''

The Forty Days of Musa Dagh ''The Forty Days of Musa Dagh'' (german: Die vierzig Tage des Musa Dagh) is a 1933 novel by Austrian- Bohemian writer Franz Werfel based on events that took place in 1915, during the second year of World War I and at the beginning of the Armenian ...

''. It was a bestseller that became particularly popular among the youth of the Jewish ghettos during the Nazi era. Armenian American writer

William Saroyan William Saroyan (; August 31, 1908 – May 18, 1981) was an Armenian-American novelist, playwright, and short story writer. He was awarded the Pulitzer Prize for Drama in 1940, and in 1943 won the Academy Award for Best Story for the film ''The ...

emphasized the Armenians' ability to survive in his 1935 short story The Armenian and the Armenian.

Kurt Vonnegut Kurt Vonnegut Jr. (November 11, 1922 – April 11, 2007) was an American writer known for his satirical and darkly humorous novels. In a career spanning over 50 years, he published fourteen novels, three short-story collections, five plays, and ...

's 1988 novel ''

Bluebeard "Bluebeard" (french: Barbe bleue, ) is a French folktale, the most famous surviving version of which was written by Charles Perrault and first published by Barbin in Paris in 1697 in ''Histoires ou contes du temps passé''. The tale tells the st ...

'' features the Armenian genocide as an underlying theme. Other novels incorporating the Armenian genocide include Louis de Berniéres' ''Birds without Wings'',

Edgar Hilsenrath Edgar Hilsenrath (April 2, 1926 – December 30, 2018) was a German-Jewish writer and Holocaust survivor. He wrote several fictional novels that gave an unvarnished view of the Holocaust which were partly based on his own experiences in a Nazi co ...

's German-language '' The Story of the Last Thought'',

David Kherdian David Kherdian (born 1931) is an Armenian-American writer, poet, and editor. He is known best for ''The Road from Home'' (Greenwillow Books, 1979), based on his mother's childhood—cataloged as biography by some libraries, as fiction by others. ...

's '' The Road from Home'' and Polish author

Stefan Żeromski Stefan Żeromski ( ; 14 October 1864 – 20 November 1925) was a Polish novelist and dramatist belonging to the Young Poland movement at the turn of the 20th century. He was called the "conscience of Polish literature". He also wrote under t ...

's 1925 ''

The Spring to Come The Polish novel ''Przedwiośnie'' (a title translated alternatively as ''First Spring'',

''. A story in Edward Saint-Ivan's 2006 anthology "The Black Knight's God" includes a fictional survivor of the Armenian genocide. A penitence for the genocide is the main theme of ''Stone Dreams (Daş Yuxular)'', the novel of the Azerbaijani author

Akram Aylisli Akram Najaf oglu Naibov ( az, Əkrəm Nəcəf oğlu Naibov, born December 6, 1937), better known by his pen name Akram Aylisli, is an Azerbaijani writer, playwright, novelist and former member of parliament.Üçüncü çağırış Azərbaycan Res ...

, written in 2006. After publishing the novel Aylisli was harassed by the state and his books were burnt. The novel ''Among the Ashes (Küller Arasında)'', 2009, by the Turkish writer Halil İbrahim Özcan also tells about the Armenian genocide. 2006 novel

The Bastard of Istanbul ''The Bastard of Istanbul'' is a 2006 novel by Turkish bestselling author Elif Shafak, written originally in English and published by Viking Adult. It was translated by Aslı Biçen into her native language Turkish under the title ''Baba ve Pi� ...

Elif Shafak Elif Shafak ( tr, Elif Şafak, ; born 25 October 1971) is a Turkish-British novelist, essayist, public speaker, political scientist and activist. Shafak writes in Turkish and English, and has published 19 works. She is best known for her n ...

tells a Turkish and an Armenian family's hundred-year history that has been affected by the events of 1900s. The novel by Forget-Me-Not by published 2017 tells the emotional story of the girl Narine during Easter 1915. The events of genocide are seen by the eyes of a girl who finds itself in the epicenter of massacres.

Theatre

Richard Kalinoski's play, ''Beast on the Moon'', is about two Armenian genocide survivors. Anoush Baghdassarian's play, "FOUND," is a historical fiction play about a woman's experience through the Armenian genocide. It follows the story of a girl named Lucine who is searching for her brother who was taken by Turkish soldiers in 1915 at the start of the genocide. The stage is split in half and while "Old Lucine (1925)" on stage right writes in her diary of memories of the past ten years, "Young Lucine (1915)" acts them out on stage left. It has been performed in New York (2013) and California (2014). In 2014, Devon Jackson's play ''Nameless'' premiered at Queen's University in the lead-up to the commemoration of the centenary of the Armenian genocide. A

verbatim theatre Documentary theatre is theatre that uses pre-existing documentary material (such as newspapers, government reports, interviews, journals, and correspondences) as source material for stories about real events and people, frequently without altering ...

play on the Armenian genocide, ''I Wish To Die Singing – Voices From The Armenian Genocide'' by Neil McPherson (artistic director), played at the

Finborough Theatre The Finborough Theatre is a fifty-seat theatre in the West Brompton area of London (part of the Royal Borough of Kensington and Chelsea) under artistic director Neil McPherson. The theatre presents new British writing, as well as UK and world p ...

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, from 21 April to 16 May 2015.

Film

The first film about the Armenian genocide appeared in 1919, a Hollywood production titled ''

Ravished Armenia ''Ravished Armenia'' (full title: ''Ravished Armenia: The Story of Aurora Mardiganian, the Christian Girl, Who Survived the Great Massacres'') is a book written in 1918 by Arshaluys (Aurora) Mardiganian about her experiences in the Armenian gen ...

''. It resonated with acclaimed director

Atom Egoyan Atom Egoyan (; hy, Աթոմ Եղոյեան, translit=Atom Yeghoyan; born July 19, 1960) is a Canadian filmmaker. He was part of a loosely-affiliated group of filmmakers to emerge in the 1980s from Toronto known as the Toronto New Wave. Egoyan m ...

, influencing his 2002 '' Ararat''. There are also references in

Elia Kazan Elia Kazan (; born Elias Kazantzoglou ( el, Ηλίας Καζαντζόγλου); September 7, 1909 – September 28, 2003) was an American film and theatre director, producer, screenwriter and actor, described by ''The New York Times'' as "one o ...

's ''

America, America ''America America'' (British title ''The Anatolian Smile''—a reference to an ongoing acknowledgment of the character Stavros' captivating smile) is a 1963 American drama film directed, produced and written by Elia Kazan, adapted from his own b ...

'' and

Henri Verneuil Henri Verneuil (; born Ashot Malakian; 15 October 1920 – 11 January 2002) was a French-Armenian playwright and filmmaker, who made a successful career in France. He was nominated for Oscar and Palme d'Or awards, and won Locarno International Fi ...

's ''

Mayrig ''Mayrig'' (''Mother'') is a 1991 semi-autobiographical film written and directed by French-Armenian filmmaker Henri Verneuil. The film's principal cast includes Claudia Cardinale and Omar Sharif as parents of Azad (Henri Verneuil depicted as child ...

''. At the

Berlin Film Festival The Berlin International Film Festival (german: Internationale Filmfestspiele Berlin), usually called the Berlinale (), is a major international film festival held annually in Berlin, Germany. Founded in 1951 and originally run in June, the festi ...

of 2007 Italian directors

Paolo and Vittorio Taviani Paolo Taviani (; born 8 November 1931) and Vittorio Taviani (; 20 September 1929 – 15 April 2018), collectively referred to as the Taviani brothers, were Italian film directors and screenwriters who collaborated on film productions. At the C ...

presented another film about the events, based on Antonia Arslan's book, ''

La Masseria Delle Allodole ''The Lark Farm'' (Italian: ''La masseria delle allodole'') is a 2007 Italian drama film directed by Paolo and Vittorio Taviani about the Armenian genocide. Plot The story, drawn from ''La masseria delle allodole'', the best-selling novel by Ant ...

'' (''The Farm of the Larks'').

Films

* 1919 – ''

'', a Hollywood film about the real-life story of survivor

Aurora Mardiganian Aurora (Arshaluys) Mardiganian ( hy, Աուրորա �րշալոյսՄարտիկանեան; January 12, 1901 – February 6, 1994) was an Armenian-American author, actress, and a survivor of the Armenian genocide. Biography Aurora Mardiganian wa ...

* 1963 – ''

America America ''America America'' (British title ''The Anatolian Smile''—a reference to an ongoing acknowledgment of the character Stavros' captivating smile) is a 1963 American drama film directed, produced and written by Elia Kazan, adapted from his own b ...

'' (also known as ''The Anatolian Smile'') (dir.

) * 1977 – ''

Nahapet ''Nahapet'' ( hy, Նահապետ) is a 1977 Soviet Armenian-language drama film about a man who tries to rebuild his life after losing his wife and child in the Armenian genocide. It is based on a novel written by Hrachya Qochar. The film has been ...

'' * 1979 - '' Dzori Miro'' * 1982 – ''The Forty Days of Musa Dagh'' (dir. Sarky Mouradian) * 1988 - ''

Komitas Soghomon Soghomonian, ordained and commonly known as Komitas, ( hy, Կոմիտաս; 22 October 1935) was an Armenian priest, musicologist, composer, arranger, singer, and choirmaster, who is considered the founder of the Armenian national scho ...

'' (dir.

Don Askarian Don Askarian ( hy, Դոն Ասկարյան; born Makedon Hovsepi Askarian ( hy, Մակեդոն Հովսեփի Ասկարյան) on 10 July 1949 in Stepanakert, Nagorno-Karabakh Autonomous Oblast, USSR – died 6 October 2018 in Berlin, Germany) was ...

), * 1990 – ''Yearning'' ''(Karot)'' * 1991 – ''

'' by

* 1992 - '' Avetik'' (dir.

), * 2001 - '' On the Old Roman Road'' (dir.

), * 2002 – '' Ararat'' (dir.

) * 2007 – ''

The Lark Farm ''The Lark Farm'' (Italian: ''La masseria delle allodole'') is a 2007 Italian drama film directed by Paolo and Vittorio Taviani about the Armenian genocide. Plot The story, drawn from ''La masseria delle allodole'', the best-selling novel by Ant ...

'' * 2009 – ''

'', restored and edited 24-minute segment of original 1919 film * 2014 - '' The Cut'' (dir.

Fatih Akın Fatih Akin (Turkish: Fatih Akın, born 25 August 1973) is a German film director, screenwriter and producer of Turkish descent. He has won numerous awards for his films, including the Golden Bear at the Berlin Film Festival for his film '' Head ...

) * 2014 - '' Orphans of the Genocide'' (dir. Bared Maronian) * 2015 - ''

1915 Events Below, the events of World War I have the "WWI" prefix. January * January – British physicist Sir Joseph Larmor publishes his observations on "The Influence of Local Atmospheric Cooling on Astronomical Refraction". *January 1 ...

'' (dir. Garin Hovannisian) * 2016 - '' The Promise'' directed by

Terry George Terence George (born 20 December 1952) is an Irish screenwriter and director. Much of his film work (e.g. ''The Boxer'', ''Some Mother's Son'', and ''In the Name of the Father'') involves "The Troubles" in Northern Ireland. He was nominated fo ...

Documentary films

* 1945 – ''Fatherland'' (dir. G. Balasanyan, L. Isahakyan and G. Zardaryan) * 1964 – ''Where Are My People?'' (dir. J. Michael Hagopian) * 1975 – ''The Forgotten Genocide'' (dir. J. Michael Hagopian) * 1983 – ''Assignment Berlin'' (dir. Hrayr Toukhanian) * 1988 – ''An Armenian Journey'' (dir. Theodore Bogosian) * 1988 – ''Back To Ararat'' (dirs. Jim Downing, Göran Gunér, Per-Åke Holmquist, Suzanne Khardalian) * 1991 – ''The Armenian Genocide '' * 1992 – ''

Secret History A secret history (or shadow history) is a revisionist interpretation of either fictional or real history which is claimed to have been deliberately suppressed, forgotten, or ignored by established scholars. "Secret history" is also used to desc ...

: The Hidden Holocaust'' (dir. Michael Jones) * 2000 – ''I Will Not Be Sad in This World'' (dir. Karina Epperlein) * 2000 – ''Destination Nowhere: The Witness'' (dir. Dr. J. Michael Hagopian) * 2003 – ''Germany and the Secret Genocide'' (dir. Dr. J. Michael Hagopian) * 2003 – ''Voices From the Lake: A Film About the Secret Genocide'' (dir. J. Michael Hagopian) * 2003 – ''Desecration'' (dir. Hrair "Hawk" Khatcherian) * 2003 – ''The Armenian Genocide: A Look Through Our Eyes'' (dir. Vatche Arabian) * 2004 – ''

My Son Shall Be Armenian ''My Son Shall Be Armenian'' (Original French title: ''Mon fils sera arménien'') is a 2004 Canadian documentary by Hagop Goudsouzian, who travels to Armenia and Syria with five other members of Montreal's Armenian community who lost relatives in ...

'' (dir. Hagop Goudsouzian) * 2006 – '' The Armenian Genocide'' (dir. Andrew Goldberg) * 2006 – '' Screamers'' (dir. Carla Garapedian) * 2008 – ''The River Ran Red'' (dir. J. Michael Hagopian) * 2010 – '' Aghet – Ein Völkermord'' (dir. ) * 2011 – ''Grandma's Tattoos'' (dir. ) * 2016 – ''Women of 1915'' (dir. Bared Maronian) * 2017 – ''

Intent to Destroy ''Intent to Destroy: Death, Denial, & Depiction'' is a 2017 documentary film directed by Joe Berlinger about the Armenian genocide. Production Berlinger embedded in the filming crew of '' The Promise'' to shoot ''Intent to Destroy''. The film p ...

'' (dir.

Joe Berlinger Joseph Berlinger (born October 30, 1961) is an American documentary filmmaker and producer. Particularly focused on true crime documentaries, Berlinger's films and docu-series draw attention to social justice issues in the US and abroad in such ...

)

Music

American band

System of a Down System of a Down (also known as SoaD or simply System) is an Armenian-American heavy metal band formed in Glendale, California, in 1994. Since 1997, the band has consisted of Serj Tankian (lead vocals, keyboards); Daron Malakian (guitar, voc ...

, composed of four descendants of Armenian genocide survivors, has raised awareness of the genocide through its music, releasing multiple songs and promoting them with music videos and performing in concerts. In late 2003,

Diamanda Galás Diamanda Galás (born August 29, 1955) is an American musician, singer-songwriter, visual artist, and soprano. She has campaigned for AIDS education and the rights of the infected. Galás's commitment to addressing social issues and her involve ...

released the album '' Defixiones: Will and Testament'', an 80-minute memorial tribute to the Armenian, Assyrian and Greek victims of the genocide in Turkey. "The performance is an angry meditation on genocide and the politically cooperative denial of it, in particular the Turkish and American denial of the Armenian, Assyrian, and Anatolian Greek genocides from 1914 to 1923".

Songs and compositions

Gallery

File:They Shall Not Perish.png, ''They Shall Not Perish: American Committee for Relief in the Near East'', poster by Douglas Volk, 1918. Image:Sultan Hamid.jpg, Political cartoon portraying Sultan Hamid as a butcher for his harsh actions against the Ottoman Armenians Image:John_Bull_Hated_to_Drop_His_Bundle.jpg, "John Bull hated to drop his bundle..." Political cartoon about "England's commercial interests in the Orient". The woman represents Armenia. File:Philadelphia Museum of Art - Armenian Genocide memorial.jpg, Philadelphia Museum of Art – Armenian Genocide Memorial

References

External links

Art

The Armenian Genocide — 95 Years Later, In Remembrance

Armenian Genocide in Contemporary Graphic and Art Posters

''Art, Memory, and the Armenian Genocide'', by Stephen Feinstein

''Turkish Soup Made with Armenian Bones'', documentary film by Souren Karapetian about Zareh's artwork dedicated to Armenian Genocide.

Music

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Film

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Art

Literature

Theatre

Film

Films

Documentary films

Music

Songs and compositions

Gallery

See also

References

Further reading

External links

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