Chapters in this book

1. Frontmatter i
2. Contents vii
3. Figures viii
4. Acknowledgements x
5. Introduction: Out of the Marvellous, or, Scholarship and the Magic Arts 1
6. 1 The Artist and the Terrorist, or, The Paintable and the Unpaintable: Gerhard Richter and the Baader-Meinhof Group 8
7. 2 The Face, or, Senseless Kindness: War Photography and the Ethics of Responsibility 33
8. 3 Provenance, or, Authenticity: The Guitar Player and the Arc of a Life 58
9. 4 Broomstick Horrors, or, The Fog-Walker in the Wood: Keeping up Appearances in the Great War 76
10. 5 The Strategy of Still Life, or, Art and Current Affairs: Georges Braque and the Occupation 100
11. 6 All This Happened, or, The Real Waugh: Sword of Honour and the Literature of the Second World War 125
12. 7 The Secret Life, or, The Soldier’s Tale: Diaries and Diary-Keeping in War 146
13. 8 Like a Dog, or, Animal House on the Night Shift: Kafka and Abu Ghraib 172
14. 9 It’s All Fucked Up, or, The Non-Fiction Horror Movie: The Cinema and the War on Terror 197
15. 10 Waiting for the Barbarians, or, The Hospitality of War: Civilisation and Barbarism in the War on Terror 218
16. Index 237