Is not pacifist through association

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But the exhibition also grouped the art and its artists as a kind of promotional entity, in terms of its advocacy of a student anti-war collective. The minimalist artworks therefore became anti-war art through their promotion of another social group. Although it proved itself to be highly effective within the art community, one might think of this as secondary-level political art. One might similarly categorize the early anti-war letterwriting campaigns, beginning in 1965 and continuing through 1968, waged by the Artists and Writers Protest, whose members
included Leon Golub and Spero. Many of the group’s letters were published in the New York Times. In contrast, the majority of the work I discuss in this chapter is not pacifist through association, but rather through its address of specific causes and effects—the contingencies, so to speak—of postwar military conflict.