The idyllic art of Bagram airbase: Edmund Clark’s Mountains of Majeed

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The idyllic art of Bagram airbase: Edmund Clark’s Mountains of Majeed

Sean O'Hagan, for The Guardian

“The paintings seem to be some kind of reminder of that way of life and its power to endure. But it is the mountains themselves that symbolise it more than anything else.” After all, as Clark says in his conclusion to the book, the mountains, both real and imagined, “belong to Majeed”.”