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- catalog abstract ""From the fourteenth century on, the artifacts of Western visual culture became increasingly violent. Destroyed faces, dissolved human shapes, devilish doppelgangers of the sacred: violence made real people nameless examples 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."--Jacket.".
- catalog alternative "Ungestalt. English".
- catalog contributor b13178460.
- catalog created "2004.".
- catalog date "2004".
- catalog date "2004.".
- catalog dateCopyrighted "2004.".
- catalog description ""From the fourteenth century on, the artifacts of Western visual culture became increasingly violent. Destroyed faces, dissolved human shapes, devilish doppelgangers of the sacred: violence made real people nameless examples 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."--Jacket.".
- catalog description "De/faced -- Imagination -- Invisible enemies -- Saving face -- The crucified and his doubles -- Fiends: false signs on the battlefield -- Facing the pictures: are we all safe?".
- catalog description "Includes bibliographical references and index.".
- catalog extent "199 p. :".
- catalog hasFormat "Defaced.".
- catalog identifier "1890951374 (cloth)".
- catalog isFormatOf "Defaced.".
- catalog issued "2004".
- catalog issued "2004.".
- catalog language "eng ger".
- catalog language "eng".
- catalog publisher "New York : Zone Books,".
- catalog relation "Defaced.".
- catalog subject "704.9/493036/09024 21".
- catalog subject "Art, Medieval Themes, motives.".
- catalog subject "N8257 .G7613 2004".
- catalog subject "Violence in art.".
- catalog tableOfContents "De/faced -- Imagination -- Invisible enemies -- Saving face -- The crucified and his doubles -- Fiends: false signs on the battlefield -- Facing the pictures: are we all safe?".
- catalog title "Defaced : the visual culture of violence in the late Middle Ages / Valentin Groebner ; translated by Pamela Selwyn.".
- catalog title "Ungestalt. English".
- catalog type "text".