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This publication documents Petlin’s long engagement with issues of conscience in the global arena of political and military engagement. Included here is also a complete chronology.
It is an article of faith with me that good and true artists will always represent the human face and figure and presence until the end of time. Some will not. Those who will, as they always have, will transform the depictive art by power of unique gifts and character and personality and doggedness and luck and thorough the courtesy, as it were, of the time and place in which they live and interact. Do not be impatient with those of us like Petlin who are having to reread our depictive history slowly , as if in this era of later modernism that history is written in a lost of distant tongue.
- R. B. Kitaj
Edited by Douglas Walla