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On good and evil and the grey zone / Alex Danchev.
- Format:
- Book
- Author/Creator:
- Danchev, Alex, author.
- Language:
- English
- Subjects (All):
- Poitras, Laura.
- Kiefer, Anselm, 1945-.
- Kiefer, Anselm.
- Mucha, Reinhard, 1950-.
- Mucha, Reinhard.
- Arts and morals.
- Arts--Moral and ethical aspects.
- Arts.
- Good and evil in art.
- Physical Description:
- 1 online resource (viii, 214 pages) : digital, PDF file(s).
- Other Title:
- On Good & Evil & the Grey Zone
- Place of Publication:
- Edinburgh : Edinburgh University Press, 2016.
- Summary:
- 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.
- Contents:
- "Good? But what is good? Ethics after Ikonnikov
- Our brother's keepers : 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.
- Notes:
- Title from publisher's bibliographic system (viewed on 04 Nov 2016).
- ISBN:
- 1-4744-1032-4
- OCLC:
- 1301548880
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