Danchev, Alex, <br/><br/>
On good and evil and the grey zone /Alex Danchev. 

 - Edinburgh :  Edinburgh University Press,  (c)2016. 
 - 1 online resource (viii, 214 pages) :  illustrations 
<br/><br/>Includes bibliographies and index. 
<br/><br/>"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. 
<br/><br/> 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. 
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<br/><br/><label>Nat. Bib. No.: </label>GBB8K7939  bnb 
<br/><br/><label>Nat. Bib. Agency Control No.: </label>019112453  Uk 
<br/><br/><label>Subjects--Personal Names: </label><br/>Poitras, Laura.<br/>Kiefer, Anselm, 1945- <br/>Mucha, Reinhard, 1950- 
<br/><br/><label>Subjects--Topical Terms: </label><br/>Arts and morals.<br/>Arts--Moral and ethical aspects.<br/>Good and evil in art.
<br/><br/><label>Index Terms--Genre/Form: </label><br/>Electronic Books.
<br/><br/><label>LC Class. No.: </label>NX180  / .O546 2016