The Severed Head: Capital Visions

by Julia Kristeva

Book Overview

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...

• Format: Paperback
• Language: English
• ISBN: 0231157215
• ISBN13: 9780231157216
• Release Date: February 2014
• Publisher: Columbia University Press
• Length: 176 Pages
• Weight: 0.65 lbs.
• Dimensions: 0.5" x 6.8" x 9.7"
• Grade Range: Postsecondary and higher