On Art and War and Terror / / Alex Danchev.

This book, a collection of Alex Danchev's essays on the theme of art, war and terror, offers a sustained demonstration of the way in which works of art can help us to explore the most difficult ethical and political issues of our time: war, terror, extermination, torture and abuse.It takes seri...

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Superior document:Title is part of eBook package: De Gruyter Edinburgh University Press Backlist eBook-Package 2013-2000
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Place / Publishing House:Edinburgh : : Edinburgh University Press, , [2022]
©2009
Year of Publication:2022
Language:English
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Physical Description:1 online resource (256 p.) :; 17 B/W illustrations
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Table of Contents:
  • Frontmatter
  • Contents
  • Figures
  • Acknowledgements
  • Introduction: Out of the Marvellous, or, Scholarship and the Magic Arts
  • 1 The Artist and the Terrorist, or, The Paintable and the Unpaintable: Gerhard Richter and the Baader-Meinhof Group
  • 2 The Face, or, Senseless Kindness: War Photography and the Ethics of Responsibility
  • 3 Provenance, or, Authenticity: The Guitar Player and the Arc of a Life
  • 4 Broomstick Horrors, or, The Fog-Walker in the Wood: Keeping up Appearances in the Great War
  • 5 The Strategy of Still Life, or, Art and Current Affairs: Georges Braque and the Occupation
  • 6 All This Happened, or, The Real Waugh: Sword of Honour and the Literature of the Second World War
  • 7 The Secret Life, or, The Soldier’s Tale: Diaries and Diary-Keeping in War
  • 8 Like a Dog, or, Animal House on the Night Shift: Kafka and Abu Ghraib
  • 9 It’s All Fucked Up, or, The Non-Fiction Horror Movie: The Cinema and the War on Terror
  • 10 Waiting for the Barbarians, or, The Hospitality of War: Civilisation and Barbarism in the War on Terror
  • Index