Excepting Rico Gatson's kaleidoscopic video punctuated by exploding bombs, none directly address war or terrorism.
And we need a poem that's honest in addressing war's roots – William Blake's A Poison Tree.
Many of Fairey's images overtly and obliquely address war and peace, the environment and the economy.
It was a quietly powerful story narrated by a Lebanese woman translator; the work addressed war, art, and the life of women in Lebanese culture.
Patti Smith's new album, "Trampin' " (Columbia), is her first since 2000, and its songs address war and peace with joy and anger and motherly love.
But it is the poems addressing war's aftermath that convince, revealing a hopeful dimension to Motion's tender, sombre verse.
Starting with Homer and ending with Lincoln's Gettysburg Address, war, with its incomparable triumphs and unfathomable sorrows, has always inspired some of the greatest literature of all.
The first "Iron Man" film, from 2008, addressed war profiteering and arms contractors at a time when the United States was still heavily involved in Iraq.
He repeatedly addressed war, racism and poverty, and devoted a decade to completing a series of woodcut portraits of people who were tortured and killed under a rightist military dictatorship in his home country, Uruguay, from 1973 to 1985.
Or if the troops died for "something," it was not for the war on terror but to satisfy the ideological hubris of a self-designated war president and those unelected officials who advised him in sporting metaphors like "slam dunk" that do not address war's central issues of life and death.
Zoos may not address war or unemployment, but they give us a chance to consider the profound miracle and fragility of life.
