Defaced: The Visual Culture of Violence in the Late Middle Ages by Valentin Groebner

Mit Press

Defaced: The Visual Culture of Violence in the Late Middle Ages

Valentin Groebner with Pamela Selwyn (Translator)

199 pages hardcover

2 editions

nonfiction art history challenging informative reflective medium-paced
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From the fourteenth century on, the artifacts of Western visual culture became increasingly violent. Destroyed faces, dissolved human shapes, devilish doppelg ngers of the sacred: violence made real people nameless exemplars of formless, hideous h...

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