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On Art and War and Terror (Paperback)
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On Art and War and Terror (Paperback)
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This book, a collection of Alex Danchev's essays on the theme of
art, war and terror, newly available in paperback, 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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