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- 2009-02-03
- ISBN
- 9781890951382
- EAN
- 9781890951382
- Book Title
- Defaced : the Visual Culture of Violence in the Late Middle Ages
- Item Length
- 9.6in
- Publisher
- Zone Books
- Publication Year
- 2009
- Format
- Trade Paperback
- Language
- English
- Item Height
- 0.8in
- Genre
- Art
- Topic
- Criticism & Theory, History / Ancient & Classical, History / Medieval, Subjects & Themes / General
- Item Width
- 6.1in
- Item Weight
- 13.1 Oz
- Number of Pages
- 200 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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Zone Books
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1890951382
ISBN-13
9781890951382
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66020502
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Book Title
Defaced : the Visual Culture of Violence in the Late Middle Ages
Format
Trade Paperback
Language
English
Topic
Criticism & Theory, History / Ancient & Classical, History / Medieval, Subjects & Themes / General
Publication Year
2009
Genre
Art
Number of Pages
200 Pages
Dimensions
Item Length
9.6in
Item Height
0.8in
Item Width
6.1in
Item Weight
13.1 Oz
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N8257.G7613 2008
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College Graduate Student
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"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.
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2004
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704.9/493036/09024
Dewey Edition
21
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Yes
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