Martial aesthetics : how war became an art form /

"The twenty-first century has witnessed a pervasive militarization of aesthetics with Western military institutions co-opting the creative worldmaking of art and merging it with the destructive forces of warfare. In Martial Aesthetics, Anders Engberg-Pedersen examines the origins of this unlike...

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Autore principale: Engberg-Pedersen, Anders (Autore)
Natura: Licensed eBooks
Lingua:inglese
Pubblicazione: Stanford, California : Stanford University Press, [2023]
Accesso online:https://search.ebscohost.com/login.aspx?direct=true&scope=site&db=nlebk&AN=3535377
Sommario:
  • Introduction : creative warfare
  • Astrological war media
  • The artifact of war
  • Operational aesthetics
  • The war artists
  • Designing war
  • Epilogue : failures of imagination.