TY  - GEN
T1  - On art and war and terror
A1  - Danchev, Alex
LA  - English
PP  - Edinburgh
PB  - Edinburgh University Press
YR  - 2009
UL  - https://ebooks.jgu.edu.in/Record/jstor_eba_ocn608729366
AB  - "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 seriously the idea of the artist as moral witness to this realm, considering war photography, for example, as a form of humanitarian intervention. War poetry, war films and war diaries are also considered in a broad view of art, and of war. Kafka is drawn upon to address torture and abuse in the war on terror; Homer is utilised to analyse current talk of 'barbarisation'. The paintings of Gerhard Richter are used to investigate the terrorists of the Baader-Meinhof group, while the photographs of Don McCullin and the writings of Vassily Grossman and Primo Levi allow the author to propose an ethics of small acts of altruism. This book examines the nature of war over the last century, from the Great War to a particular focus on the current 'Global War on Terror'. It investigates what it means to be human in war, the cost it exacts and the ways of coping. Several of the essays therefore have a biographical focus."--Publisher's description.
OP  - 242
CN  - NX650.W3 D26 2009eb
SN  - 9780748641383
SN  - 0748641386
SN  - 9780748639151
SN  - 0748639152
SN  - 0748642595
SN  - 9780748642595
KW  - Art and war.
KW  - War and literature.
KW  - War in art.
KW  - War in literature.
KW  - War films : History and criticism.
KW  - Arts and morals.
KW  - Art et guerre.
KW  - Guerre et littérature.
KW  - Guerre dans l'art.
KW  - Guerre dans la littérature.
KW  - Films de guerre : Histoire et critique.
KW  - Arts et morale.
KW  - ART : Reference.
KW  - ART : Performance.
KW  - HISTORY / Military / Pictorial
KW  - Art and war
KW  - Arts and morals
KW  - War and literature
KW  - War films
KW  - War in art
KW  - War in literature
KW  - Künste
KW  - Krieg
KW  - Terrorismus
KW  - Criticism, interpretation, etc.
ER  -