The Severed Head
Capital Visions
Informed by a provocative exhibition at the Louvre curated by the author, The Severed Head unpacks artistic representations of severed heads from the Paleolithic period to the present. Surveying paintings, sculptures, and drawings, Julia Kristeva turns her famed critical eye to a study of the head as symbol and metaphor, as religious object and physical fact, further developing a critical theme in her work--the power of horror--and the potential for the face to provide an experience of the sacred.Kristeva considers the head as icon, artifact, and locus of thought, seeking a keener understanding of the violence and desire that drives us to sev…
Mehr
CHF 33.55
Preise inkl. MwSt. und Versandkosten (Portofrei ab CHF 40.00)
Versandkostenfrei
Produktdetails
Weitere Autoren: Gladding, Jody (Übers.)
- ISBN: 978-0-231-53038-5
- EAN: 9780231530385
- Produktnummer: 22651489
- Verlag: Columbia University Press
- Sprache: Englisch
- Erscheinungsjahr: 2011
- Plattform: EPUB
- Masse: 11'506 KB
- Abbildungen: 18 illus.
Über den Autor
Julia Kristeva. Translated by Jody Gladding
71 weitere Werke von Julia Kristeva:
Bewertungen
Anmelden