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This volume moves beyond the deadlock between war's inevitability and peace as a naïve chimera. Drawing from the humanities, these essays examine war not just as a destructive force but as a catalyst for creative expression, exploring themes of exile, memory, and resistance.
In an international context of constant and accelerated amplification of warfare across multiple territories worldwide, belligerent discourses appear to narrow the debate into two irreconcilable and opposing perspectives: on the one hand, the inevitability of war; on the other, peace as a naïve chimera. Drawing on diverse disciplinary fields within the humanities, including literature, philosophy, history, and the arts, this volume seeks to move beyond this deadlock by offering a more nuanced approach to the idea of war. Aiming to better understand its mechanisms and the objects (texts, films, works of art) that engage with it, the essays gathered here examine war not only in terms of its destructive force but also as a catalyst for creative expression. The diverse group of authors assembled in this volume explore universal and, at the same time, pressing contemporary themes that emerge transversally from the realm of war: exile, memory, trauma, and political resistance. The new readings put forward offer thought-provoking hypotheses that challenge more conventional perspectives and open fresh avenues of inquiry into the role of war in the narratives constructed around it.
This pioneering book introduces the “feminine,” a dimension of film not reducible to women’s experience. Exploring this Jungian concept through movies spanning seven decades, it enhances the appreciation of film as a depth psychological medium.
This is the first monograph dedicated to Leonardo da Vinci’s commission for The Virgin of the Rocks, which he painted twice. It opens up Leonardo’s world and unveils the secret realms of human dissection and philosophy that inspired the creation of the painter’s two masterpieces
This wide-ranging collection breaks new ground in feminist film theory, offering close analyses of films from Hitchcock to 21st-century horror. Praised as a “splendid contribution,” it lends readers ‘new eyes’. “Should be required reading for students and scholars.”
Why did we evolve a sense of beauty? This book answers from the perspective of scientists with deep knowledge of the arts, weaving together experimental science with art, music, and more. They show how all our senses are similar under the hood in shaping our aesthetic experience.
This conference proceedings brings together researchers, artists, art historians, and activists to collaboratively map the uncharted territories of new forms of botanical knowledge, and to capitalize on contemporary art’s ability to productively unhinge scientific theories.
This publication focuses on the various vectors of visual communication, particularly contemporary brands as social phenomena, culture and the way people communicate and create meanings, from a designer’s perspective.
Millais exposes the myths that surround Le Corbusier, detailing the endless failures of his proposals and his projects and arguing that his influence on architecture was disastrous, as traditional buildings were destroyed and replaced by featureless boxes of varying sizes.
Redwood undertakes a close formal analysis of Tarkovsky’s later films. Charting the stylistic and narrative innovations in Mirror, Stalker, Nostalghia and The Sacrifice, he succeeds in shedding new light on these celebrated, but often misunderstood, masterpieces.
This collection of essays explores the enduring afterlife of medieval art and architecture. It examines how medieval works were preserved, restored, and appropriated from the 16th to 20th centuries to shape modern political, religious, and cultural practices.
This accessible collection offers a fresh approach to photography and literature. Essays by acknowledged experts consider both key literary figures, from Proust to Sebald, and photographic practitioners to give a commanding, ground-breaking overview of the subject.
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