Question: Can art accurately capture the experience of war?
Answer: Throughout history, artists and authors have tried to allow their audience to experience war and to some extent have been very accurate. There is however, no truly accurate medium through which the experience of war can be portrayed. Accurate, as defined by the Merriam-Webster online collegiate dictionary, means free from error and conforming exactly to truth or to a standard. No human author can write something free from error because a man cannot have absolute knowledge about a particular situation. Also, because man is not infallible, the author cannot be totally objective in writing about his experience but will include his perspective on the facts....(short extract)
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- Subject: Art History
- Course: Art History
- Level: Degree
- Year: 2nd/3rd
- Mark: 60%
- Words: 1510
- Date submitted: March 05, 2009
- Date written: Not available
- References: No
- Document type: Essay*
- Essay ID: 895
