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The Severed Head: Capital Visions

By Julia , Kristeva

Book information

Publisher
Columbia University Press
Year
2012
ISBN
9780231530385, 9780231157209, 0231157207
Language
english
Format
MOBI
Filesize
1 MB (1298132 bytes)
Series
European Perspectives: A Series in Social Thought and Cultural Criticism
Pages
xxii, 162 pages, 16 pages de planches non numérot
Time added
2020-07-26 19:24:52
ArtEuropean -- ThemesEuropean--Themesmotifsmotifs;Beheading in art;Décapitation dans l'art;Hemotives;Art européen--Thèmesmotives;Tête dans l'art;Décapitation dans l'art;

Description

On drawing; or, the speed of thought -- The skull: cult and art -- Who is Medusa? -- The true image: a holy face -- A digression: economy, figure, face -- The ideal figure; or, a prophesy in actuality: Saint John the Baptist -- Beheadings -- From the guillotine to the abolition of capital punishment -- Powers of horror -- The face and the experience of limits.

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