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On Art and War and Terror (Hardcover)
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On Art and War and Terror (Hardcover)
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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.
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