On art and war and terror. (©2009)

• Record Type: Book
• Further Information: Note: Alex Danchev.
• Other Names: Danchev, Alex
• Contents: 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.
• Publisher Details: Edinburgh : Edinburgh University Press
• Publication Date: 2009
• Copyright Date: 2009
• Extent: 1 online resource (xi, 242 pages), illustrations
• Subjects: 700/.458; Art and war; War and literature; War in art; War in literature; War films -- History and criticism; Arts and morals; ART -- Reference; ART -- Performance; Art and war; Arts and morals; War and literature; War films; War in art; War in literature; Künste; Krieg; Terrorismus; Electronic books; Criticism, interpretation, etc
• Languages: English
• ISBNs: 9780748641383; 0748641386
• Related ISBNs: 9780748639151; 0748639152; 0748642595; 9780748642595
• Notes: Note: Includes bibliographical references and index.; Note: Print version record.
• Access Rights: Legal Deposit; Only available on premises controlled by the deposit library and to one user at any one time; The Legal Deposit Libraries (Non-Print Works) Regulations (UK).
• Access Usage: Restricted: Printing from this resource is governed by The Legal Deposit Libraries (Non-Print Works) Regulations (UK) and UK copyright law currently in force.