Art and Humanitarian Action: What is Possible?

Can art help us better understand humanitarian issues? Academics, artists and humanitarian practitioners set out some possible answers. Can art help us grasp in nuanced ways the implications of the complex humanitarian situations for our everyday life?  How can we ensure art doesn’t misrepresent those concerned or the humanitarian situations themselves? Is art useful in crisis situations – or when a society is in ruin?

This richly illustrated book follows on from ‘Art and Humanity: What Is Possible?’, an online symposium organised in 2021 by the International Red Cross and Red Crescent Museum, HEAD – Genève and the International Committee of the Red Cross, in partnership with the Geneva Red Cross. The dust jacket features a new work by Swiss artist  Gilles Furtwängler.