{"id":409,"date":"2013-10-17T11:30:12","date_gmt":"2013-10-17T11:30:12","guid":{"rendered":"http:\/\/english.thesunrisetoday.com\/?p=409"},"modified":"2013-10-17T11:30:12","modified_gmt":"2013-10-17T11:30:12","slug":"tony-blair-iraq-selfie-stars-in-uk-art-exhibition","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/english.thesunrisetoday.com\/index.php\/tony-blair-iraq-selfie-stars-in-uk-art-exhibition\/","title":{"rendered":"Tony Blair \u2018Iraq selfie\u2019 stars in UK art exhibition"},"content":{"rendered":"<p style=\"text-align: justify;\"><a href=\"http:\/\/english.thesunrisetoday.com\/wp-content\/uploads\/2013\/10\/UK.jpg\"><img loading=\"lazy\" class=\"alignleft size-medium wp-image-410\" alt=\"UK\" src=\"http:\/\/english.thesunrisetoday.com\/wp-content\/uploads\/2013\/10\/UK-300x166.jpg\" width=\"300\" height=\"166\" \/><\/a>Positioning himself to take the right \u201cselfie,\u201d former British Prime Minister Tony Blair is seen grinning as he tilts his phone to make sure a background of smoke and fire appears in the shot.<br \/>\nOr at least that\u2019s how one artist wants to portray Blair, the man who led Britain to the 2003 Iraq war.<br \/>\nThe image features in an art exhibition which has launched this week at the Imperial War Museum North in the UK\u2019s Manchester and will run until February 2014.<br \/>\nThe museum has a collection of 70 works that forms \u201cCatalyst: Contemporary Art and War.\u201d<br \/>\nAll 70 works, which include installations, photography, film, sculpture, oil paintings, prints and book works, present a collection of contemporary art produced since the First Gulf War.<br \/>\n\u201cAt its center is the kennardphillipps&#8217; take on the decision to invade Iraq ten years ago, with a happy Tony Blair cut in front of a shocking battle scene of smoke and flames in Iraq,\u201d reported Britain\u2019s Daily Mail on Wednesday.<br \/>\nKennardphillipps is a collaboration working since 2002 to produce art in response to the invasion of Iraq.<br \/>\nAnother piece by Turner Prize-winning Brit Steve McQueen features a series of \u201cpostage stamp\u201d sheets with photographic portraits of those who died in the Iraq war, with each one also bearing the standard profile of the Queen Elizabeth.<br \/>\nMeanwhile, Gaza-Born Taysir Batniji\u2019s tongue-in-cheek art series features estate agent details for destroyed homes in Gaza; a sarcastic comment on the situation in Palestine.<\/p>\n<div id=\"fb-root\"><\/div>\r\n<script>(function(d, s, id) {\r\n  var js, fjs = d.getElementsByTagName(s)[0];\r\n  if (d.getElementById(id)) return;\r\n  js = d.createElement(s); js.id = id;\r\n  js.src = \"\/\/connect.facebook.net\/en_GB\/all.js#xfbml=1\";\r\n  fjs.parentNode.insertBefore(js, fjs);\r\n}(document, \"script\", \"facebook-jssdk\"));<\/script>\r\n <fb:comments href=\"https:\/\/english.thesunrisetoday.com\/index.php\/tony-blair-iraq-selfie-stars-in-uk-art-exhibition\/\" font=\"arial\" num_posts=\"\" width=\"\" height=\"\" colorscheme=\"light\"  style=\"background:#FFFFFF;padding-top:0px;\r\npadding-right:0px;\r\npadding-bottom:0px;\r\npadding-left:0px;\r\nmargin-top:0px;\r\nmargin-right:0px;\r\nmargin-bottom:0px;\r\nmargin-left:0px;\r\n\"><\/fb:comments>","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>Positioning himself to take the right \u201cselfie,\u201d former British Prime Minister Tony Blair is seen grinning as he tilts his phone to make sure a background of smoke and fire appears in the shot. 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