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The Severed Head: Capital Visions

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Availability:In StockContributor:Julia Kristeva, Jody Gladding (Translator)Series:European Perspectives: A Social Thought and Cultural CriticismPublish date:2014-02-11Pages:176
Language:EnglishPublisher:Columbia University PressISBN-13:9780231157216ISBN-10:231157215UPC:9780231157216Book Category:Art, Philosophy, ReligionBook Subcategory:Subjects & Themes, Aesthetics, PhilosophySize:9.74 x 6.81 x 0.52 inchesWeight:0.7804Product ID:SCWEYA1DVW

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 sever, and in some cases keep, such a potent object. Her study stretches all the way back to 6,000 B.C.E., with humans' early decoration and worship of skulls, and follows with the Medusa myth; the mandylion of Laon (a holy relic in which the face of a saint appears on a piece of cloth); the biblical story of John the Baptist and his counterpart, Salome; tales of the guillotine; modern murder mysteries; and even the rhetoric surrounding the fight for and against capital punishment. Kristeva interprets these "capital visions" through the lens of psychoanalysis, drawing infinite connections between their manifestation and sacred experience and very much affirming the possibility of the sacred, even in an era of "faceless" interaction.
Language:EnglishPublisher:Columbia University PressISBN-13:9780231157216ISBN-10:231157215UPC:9780231157216Book Category:Art, Philosophy, ReligionBook Subcategory:Subjects & Themes, Aesthetics, PhilosophySize:9.74 x 6.81 x 0.52 inchesWeight:0.7804Product ID:SCWEYA1DVW

Julia Kristeva is professor of linguistics at the Universit? de Paris VII and author of many acclaimed works and novels, including This Incredible Need to Believe, Melanie Klein, Hannah Arendt, Possessions, Time and Sense, New Maladies of the Soul, Strangers to Ourselves, and Powers of Horror: An Essay on Abjection. She is the recipient of the Hannah Arendt Prize for Political Thought and the Holberg International Memorial Prize.

Jody Gladding is a poet who has translated more than twenty works from French.
Publisher: Columbia University Press

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