Nancy Spero
Nancy Spero is an American artist, feminist and activist whose art exposes the subjugation of women and the horrors of war.
Spero returned to New York in 1964 when the Vietnam War was escalating. Horriï¬ed by the images being broadcast in the news and the extent of human suffering, she created The War Series (1966–70) to visualise and condemn the atrocities of war. She permanently abandoned canvas and started painting, drawing, collaging and printing on paper.
During 2007, in the midst of the Iraq War, Spero revived these concepts and constructed a twenty-foot sculpture Maypole: Take No Prisoners. From the top of the steel pole flowed ribbons and chains carrying 200 images of decapitated heads.
