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

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

Mit Press

Valentin Groebner with Pamela Selwyn (Translator)

217 pages missing pub info (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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