War
From The Art and Popular Culture Encyclopedia
With the 16th century The Miseries and Disasters of War, French 17th artist Jacques Callot anticipated Goya's Disasters of War, both of them criticizing the horrors of war in their art
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"It is forbidden to kill; therefore all murderers are punished unless they kill in large numbers and to the sound of trumpets" --Voltaire [...] "War is the continuation of politics by other means" --Carl von Clausewitz in On War (1832) "The putrid flesh, like the flesh of fishes, gleamed greenish-white through the rents in the uniform. I turned away and then started back in horror: close to me a figure cowered beside a tree. It wore the shining straps and belt of the French, and high upon its back there was still the loaded pack, crowned with a round cooking utensil. Empty eye-sockets and the few wisps of hair on the black and weathered skull told me that this was no living man." --Storm of Steel (1920) by Ernst Jünger |
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War is an organised and often prolonged conflict that is carried out by states or non-state actors. It is generally characterised by extreme violence, social disruption, and economic destruction.
Namesakes
- War (American band), a 1970s funk band
- The War Game, a 1965 television film on nuclear war by Peter Watkins
- Krieg dem Kriege (1924) by Ernst Friedrich
- Style war
See also
- Anti-war
- The art of war
- Cannon fodder
- Flashpoint (politics)
- Military-industrial complex
- World War I
- World War II
- World War III
- War of the sexes
- War on Drugs
- Terrorism
- The origin of war
- War crime
- Wartime sexual violence
- War reparations
Namesakes
- Pure War by Virilio
- The Miseries and Disasters of War by Callot
- Bunker Archeology: Texts and Photos by Virilio
- The Disasters of War by Goya
