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Book Title
Defaced : the Visual Culture of Violence in the Late Middle Ages
Publication Name
Defaced
Title
Defaced
Subtitle
The Visual Culture of Violence in the Late Middle Ages
Author
Valentin Groebner
Format
Hardcover
ISBN-10
1890951374
EAN
9781890951375
ISBN
9781890951375
Publisher
Zone Books
Genre
Art
Release Year
2004
Release Date
04/02/2004
Language
English
Country/Region of Manufacture
US
Item Height
0.8in
Item Length
9.2in
Item Width
6.1in
Item Weight
16.3 Oz
Publication Year
2004
Topic
Criticism & Theory, History / Ancient & Classical, History / Medieval, Subjects & Themes / General
Number of Pages
224 Pages

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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 horror. In Defaced , the historian Valentin Groebner provides a highly sophisticated historical, cultural, and political model for understanding how late-medieval images and narratives of "indescribable" violence functioned. Early modern images formed part of a complex, often contested, system of visualizing extreme violence, as Groebner reveals in a series of political, military, religious, sexual, and theatrical microhistories. Intended to convey the anguish of real pain and terror to spectators, violent visual representations made people see disfigured faces as mirrors of sexual deviance, invisible enemies as barbarian fiends, and soldiers as bloodthirsty conspirators wreaking havoc on nocturnal streets. Yet not every spectator saw the same thing when viewing these terrifying images. Whom did one see when looking at an image of violence? What effect did such images have on spectators? How could one distinguish illegitimate violence that threatened and reversed the social order from the proper, "just," and sanctioned use of force? Addressing these issues, Groebner not only calls into question contemporary habits of thinking about early modern visual culture; he also pushes his readers to rethink how they look at images of brutality in a world of increasing violence.

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Publisher
Zone Books
ISBN-10
1890951374
ISBN-13
9781890951375
eBay Product ID (ePID)
2457996

Product Key Features

Book Title
Defaced : the Visual Culture of Violence in the Late Middle Ages
Author
Valentin Groebner
Format
Hardcover
Language
English
Topic
Criticism & Theory, History / Ancient & Classical, History / Medieval, Subjects & Themes / General
Publication Year
2004
Genre
Art
Number of Pages
224 Pages

Dimensions

Item Length
9.2in
Item Height
0.8in
Item Width
6.1in
Item Weight
16.3 Oz

Additional Product Features

Lc Classification Number
N8257.G7613 2003
Grade from
College Graduate Student
Reviews
"Timely... another worthwhile publication from Zone, which has done so much to reviseour understanding of medieval bodies." Kerr Houston CAA Reviews, "Timely...another worthwhile publication from Zone, which has done so much to revise our understanding of medieval bodies." Kerr Houston CAA Reviews, Timely... another worthwhile publication from Zone, which has done so much to revise our understanding of medieval bodies., "Timely...another worthwhile publication from Zone, which has done so much to reviseour understanding of medieval bodies." Kerr Houston CAA Reviews, "Timely... another worthwhile publication from Zone, which has done so much to revise our understanding of medieval bodies." Kerr Houston CAA Reviews, "Timely... another worthwhile publication from Zone, which has done so much to revise our understanding of medieval bodies." - Kerr Houston, CAA Reviews, Defaced is an enjoyable book--and another worthwhile publication from Zone, which has done so much to revise our understanding of medieval bodies.
Copyright Date
2004
Target Audience
Trade
Lccn
2003-042268
Dewey Decimal
704.9/493036/09024
Dewey Edition
21
Illustrated
Yes

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