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On Art and War and Terror Tapa dura - 2009

de Alex Danchev


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On Art and War and Terror Alex Danchev 'The imaginative transformation of human life is the means by which we can most truly grasp and comprehend it.' That is the credo and manifesto of this book. The words are Seamus Heaney's. 'Whatever is given', he writes in his own idiom, 'can always be reimagined, however four-square/Plank-thick, hull-stupid and out of its time/It happens to be.' The essays collected here seek to investigate these claims. They put the imagination to work, in the service of historical, political and ethical inquiry. Employing its second sight, they piggy-back on its moral benefits. The nobility of poetry, says Wallace Stevens, is a violence from within that protects us from a violence without. This is a book about violence of both kinds. It traffics in war poetry, war photography, war films, war stories, war diaries and the like, but also in war itself: in blood - blood like a carwash, as Christopher Logue's Homer has it - and therefore in political legitimacy, moral authority, civility, depravity, terror, torture, honour and conscience; not to speak of strange things like active passivity and senseless kindness. The violence within is illuminating. The violence without is unrelenting. We need all the protection we can get. Alex Danchev is Professor of International Relations at the University of Nottingham. He is the author of a number of widely acclaimed biographies, of Field Marshal Sir John Dill, Oliver Franks, Basil Liddell Hart and Georges Braque, and co-editor of the bestselling War Diaries of Field Marshal Lord Alanbrooke.

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  • Título On Art and War and Terror
  • Autor Alex Danchev
  • Encuadernación Tapa dura
  • Páginas 256
  • Volúmenes 1
  • Idioma ENG
  • Editorial Edinburgh University Press
  • Fecha de publicación 2009
  • Ilustrado
  • Features Bibliography, Dust Cover, Illustrated, Index, Table of Contents
  • ISBN 9780748639151 / 0748639152
  • Peso 1.25 libras (0.57 kg)
  • Dimensiones 9.4 x 6 x 0.8 pulgadas (23.88 x 15.24 x 2.03 cm)
  • Library of Congress subjects War in literature, War and literature
  • Dewey Decimal Code 700.458

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Alex Danchev (1955-2016) was Professor of International Relations at the University of St Andrews, and the recipient of a Leverhulme Major Research Fellowship for 2014-17. He was the author of a number of internationally acclaimed biographies, most recently Czanne (2012), and an influential collection of essays, On Art and War and Terror (2009). He was also the editor of the best-selling 100 Artists' Manifestos (2011).

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Edinburgh: Edinburgh University Press, 2009. Very good/Very good. 8vo. 240 x 160mm, 242 pages. B/w photos. Book condition: Very good, clean black boards, tight binding, no inscriptions. Jacket condition: Very good, clean, bright, not faded, not creased, not clipped. Comments: A collection of essays by the author on aspects of art, war and terror, and the manner in which works of art (poetry, films, diaries) can help to explore and understand acts of war and terrorism. Quite 'deep'! . First Edition. Hard Cover. Very Good/Very Good. 8vo - over 7¾" - 9¾" tall.
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