Beauty and war - Dr Andrew Hill
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| Description: | What can beauty tell us about war? The paper scrutinises beauty’s role as casus belli, beauty’s status as a target or lure, and beauty’s capacity to offer a means of defence and source of protection. |
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| Created: | 2010-03-25 00:28 |
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| Collection: | Cambridge Review of International Affairs |
| Publisher: | University of Cambridge |
| Copyright: | Andrew Hill, O.W. Lewis |
| Language: | eng (English) |
| Keywords: | beauty; war; art; aesthetics; iraq; |
| Abstract: | What can beauty tell us about war? Beauty is a category that figures as marginal to contemporary conceptions of war and conflict. Through a focus upon the visual dimensions of beauty this paper scrutinises how the ways beauty functions and beauty’s effects, serve to illuminate war and conflict. The paper scrutinises beauty’s role as casus belli, beauty’s status as a target or lure, and beauty’s capacity to offer a means of defence and source of protection. In so doing the paper surveys a range of conflicts, including World War I, the War on Terror, the Trojan War, and the break-up of Yugoslavia.
Dr Andrew Hill is Research Fellow in Visual Culture, Centre for Research on Socio-Cultural Change (CRESC), The Open University. He is the author of Re-Imagining the War on Terror: seeing, waiting, travelling (Palgrave, 2009). |
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