'Toothless intellectuals', 'the misery of the poor', 'poetry after Auschwitz', and the white, middle-class audience: the moral perils of Kosky and Wright's 'The Women of Troy' (or, how do we regard the pain of others?)

Title: 'Toothless intellectuals', 'the misery of the poor', 'poetry after Auschwitz', and the white, middle-class audience: the moral perils of Kosky and Wright's 'The Women of Troy' (or, how do we regard the pain of others?)
Creator: Johnson, Marguerite
Relation: Didaskalia Vol. 8, Issue 11
Relation: http://www.didaskalia.net/issues/8/index.html
Publisher: Didaskalia
Resource Type: journal article
Date: 2011
Description: In one of her meditations on the photographs of war in her 2002 article for The New Yorker, ‘Looking at War: Photography’s view of devastation and death,’ Susan Sontag refers to, by way of example, a picture of a World War I veteran “whose face has been shot away” (Sontag 2002, 89) and compares it to a work of fine art, Hendrick Goltzius’ etching entitled ‘The Dragon Devouring the Companions of Cadmus’ (1588). Sontag states that “One horror has its place in a complex subject—figures in a landscape—that displays the artist’s skill of eye and hand. The other is a camera’s record, from very near, of a real person’s unspeakably awful mutilation; that and nothing else”
Subject: photography; war; Susan Sontag
Identifier: http://hdl.handle.net/1959.13/1064358
Identifier: uon:17544
Identifier: ISSN:1321-4853
Language: eng
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