<span><span>This book draws on the most recently scholarship by art historians and historians on the context and meaning of Goya’s series of eighty aquatint etchings, the </span><span style="font-style:italic;">Desastres de la Guerra</span><span>, much of it made available for the first time in English. Goya scholar Janis Tomlinson re-orders the sequence of the posthumously published 1863 edition to illustrates the artist’s stylistic evolution as well as the etchings relation to their historical context. Kathleen Stewart Howe discusses the enduring influence of these prints in contemporary art. All eighty etchings of the first edition (1863) are reproduced in full-page, color illustrations.</span></span><br /><span><span> </span></span>