The severed head : capital visions

The severed head : capital visions / Julia Kristeva ; translated by Jody Gladding.

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Bibliographic Details
Main Author: Kristeva, Julia, 1941-
Format: Book
Language:English
French
Published: New York : Columbia University Press, c2012.
Series:European perspectives.
Subjects:
Head in art.
Beheading in art.
Art, European > Themes, motives.
Uniform Title:Visions capitales.
Table of Contents:
  • On drawing; or, the speed of thought
  • The skull: cult and art
  • Who is Medusa?
  • The true image: a holy face
  • A digression: economy, figure, face
  • The ideal figure; or, a prophesy in actuality: Saint John the Baptist
  • Beheadings
  • From the guillotine to the abolition of capital punishment
  • Powers of horror
  • The face and the experience of limits.

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