Choices artists make

The author, an artist born in Europe in 1922, reflects on the history of the depiction of war in art from Goya to Otto Dix, and in particular on the artistic depiction of the Holocaust in late 20th-century America. He finds much of the work pretentious and banal, praising instead the related work of photographers like Robert Capa and Margaret Bourke-White. He closes with a description of the 42 portraits of leading Nazis he executed for an exhibition called "The Perpetrators."