At War with War visualizes humanity's 5,000-year-long state of
conflict, chaos, and violence on a continuous timeline. Seventy pages of
stark black-and-white pen-and-ink drawings and woodcuts illustrate
history's most notorious battles -- from 3300 BCE to the present day.
Interspersed are contemplations on war from historic thinkers, including
excerpts from The Art of War by Sun Tsu, The Complaint of Peace by
Desiderius Erasmus, and The State by Randolph Bourne. Searing and
sardonic, balancing anger and despair with wit and humanity, these raw
illustrations follow in the tradition of great social satirists such as
Honoré Daumier, Frans Masereel, Felix Vallotton, and Otto Dix.
Seymour Chwast is a design legend. As co-founder with Milton Glaser of
Push Pin Studios, he led a revolution in graphic design in the 1960s and
'70s, producing bold, vibrant work that pushed the limits of nearly
every visual medium.Now, he turns his pen and sketchpad toward creating
a new book on a subject that has been a personal obsession for nearly
six decades: the fight against war, humankind's never-ending scourge.