On art and war and terror
"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 tak...
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| Formato: | Libro electrónico |
| Idioma: | Inglés |
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Edinburgh :
Edinburgh University Press
c2009.
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| Colección: | EBSCO Academic eBook Collection Complete.
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| Acceso en línea: | Conectar con la versión electrónica |
| Ver en Universidad de Navarra: | https://innopac.unav.es/record=b31360348*spi |
Tabla de Contenidos:
- 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: military diaries
- - 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: civilization and barbarism in the War on Terror.
