Portraits of Violence: War and the Aesthetics of Disfigurement by Suzannah Biernoff

Portraits of Violence: War and the Aesthetics of Disfigurement

Corporealities: Discourses of Disability

Suzannah Biernoff

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Portraits of Violence explores the image and idea of facial disfigurement in one of its most troubling modern formations, as a symbol and consequence of war. It opens with Nina Berman's iconic photograph Marine Wedding, which provoked a debate abo...

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