Martial aesthetics how war became an art form
The twenty-first century has witnessed a pervasive militarization of aesthetics with Western military institutions co-opting the creative worldmaking of art and merging it with the destructive forces of warfare. In Martial Aesthetics, Anders Engberg-Pedersen examines the origins of this unlikely mer...
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| Format: | eBook |
| Language: | English |
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Stanford, California
Stanford University Press
2023, ©2023
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| Collection: | DeGruyter MPG Collection - Collection details see MPG.ReNa |
Table of Contents:
- Introduction : creative warfare
- Astrological war media
- The artifact of war
- Operational aesthetics
- The war artists
- Designing war
- Epilogue : failures of imagination