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Judging Saddam’s Pictures

Stuart Greenstreet on how to justify your taste in art.

When American soldiers seized Saddam Hussein’s palaces in Iraq they found paintings and murals in his private quarters that presumably reflected his personal taste. There were photos of them in the press. Jonathan Jones, who writes about art for the London Guardian, described them as paintings of “naked blonde maidens menaced by dragons and trolls, warriors wrestling serpents and a wet dream of missiles ...

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