Beautiful War : Studies in a Dreadful Fascination

Name: Beautiful War : Studies in a Dreadful Fascination
Brand: The University of Alabama Press

The University of Alabama Press

Beautiful WarStudies in a Dreadful Fascination\nAuthor(s): Philip D. Beidler\nFormat: Paperback\nPublisher: The University of Alabama Press, United States\nImprint: The University of Alabama Press\nISBN-13: 9780817359614, 978-0817359614\nSynopsis\nAprobing and holistic meditation on the key question: Why do we continue to make art, and thus beauty, out of war?\n\n Beautiful War: Studies in a Dreadful Fascination is a wide-ranging exploration of armed conflict as depicted in art that illustrates the constant presence of war in our everyday lives. Philip D. Beidler investigates the unending assimilation and pervasive presence of the idea of war in popular culture, the impulses behind the making of art out of war, and the unending and debatably aimless trajectories of war itself.\n Beidler's critical scope spans fromShakespeare's plays, through the Victorian battle paintings of Lady Butler, into the postWorld War I writings of F. Scott Fitzgerald and Virginia Woolf, and up to twenty-fir.