On good and evil and the grey zone /Alex Danchev.
Danchev, Alex,
On good and evil and the grey zone /Alex Danchev. - Edinburgh : Edinburgh University Press, (c)2016. - 1 online resource (viii, 214 pages) : illustrations
Includes bibliographies and index.
"Good? But what is good? Ethics after Ikonnikov -- Our brothers' keeper : moral witness -- Angelus novus : the angel of history -- Infidels and miscreants : love and war in Afghanistan -- Trouble makers : Laura Poitras and the problem of dissent -- The silage of history : Anselm Kiefer and the Kieferworld -- Footfall : the moral economy of Reinhard Mucha -- Tony Blair's Vietnam : the Iraq War and the special relationship -- Accomplicity : Britain, torture and terror -- Mending the world : artists' manifestos -- The hallowed mentor : Cezanne by numbers -- The vacuity of evil : Rumsfeld in Washington.
How can works of the imagination help us to understand good and evil in the modern world? In this new collection of essays, Alex Danchev treats the artist as a crucial moral witness of our troubled times, and puts art to work in the service of political and ethical inquiry.
GBB8K7939 bnb
019112453 Uk
Poitras, Laura.
Kiefer, Anselm, 1945-
Mucha, Reinhard, 1950-
Arts and morals.
Arts--Moral and ethical aspects.
Good and evil in art.
Electronic Books.
NX180 / .O546 2016
On good and evil and the grey zone /Alex Danchev. - Edinburgh : Edinburgh University Press, (c)2016. - 1 online resource (viii, 214 pages) : illustrations
Includes bibliographies and index.
"Good? But what is good? Ethics after Ikonnikov -- Our brothers' keeper : moral witness -- Angelus novus : the angel of history -- Infidels and miscreants : love and war in Afghanistan -- Trouble makers : Laura Poitras and the problem of dissent -- The silage of history : Anselm Kiefer and the Kieferworld -- Footfall : the moral economy of Reinhard Mucha -- Tony Blair's Vietnam : the Iraq War and the special relationship -- Accomplicity : Britain, torture and terror -- Mending the world : artists' manifestos -- The hallowed mentor : Cezanne by numbers -- The vacuity of evil : Rumsfeld in Washington.
How can works of the imagination help us to understand good and evil in the modern world? In this new collection of essays, Alex Danchev treats the artist as a crucial moral witness of our troubled times, and puts art to work in the service of political and ethical inquiry.
GBB8K7939 bnb
019112453 Uk
Poitras, Laura.
Kiefer, Anselm, 1945-
Mucha, Reinhard, 1950-
Arts and morals.
Arts--Moral and ethical aspects.
Good and evil in art.
Electronic Books.
NX180 / .O546 2016