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Peace is rarely celebrated, noted, or described, except in passing, or in juxtaposition with violence, a celebration of glory, or as a depiction of the horrors of violence. Much art depicting war and peace is related to power and to just war thinking. Depictions of the higher ethical dynamics of peace, in parallel to those of often repeated virtues of war, are rarely referred to. On the one hand, it is clear that aesthetic and visual representations of peace, and the support of peace, has been a recurrent interest for artists, but, on the other hand, these representations have traditionally followed predictable and relatively limited themes. Yet, peace has been documented as a key part of human history, politics and relations from very early on and has engaged a multi-disciplinary group of thinkers. More recently, it has become clear that “artpeace” may offer forward looking insights and may be able to...
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Richmond, O.P. (2022). Artpeace: Validating Political Power or Imagining Emancipation. In: The Palgrave Encyclopedia of Peace and Conflict Studies. Palgrave Macmillan, Cham. https://doi.org/10.1007/978-3-030-11795-5_216-1
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