Severed - 9781631490996
Un libro in lingua di Frances Larson edito da Liveright Pub Corp, 2015
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The human head is exceptional. It accommodates four of our five senses,encases the brain, and boasts the most expressive set of muscles in the body.It is our most distinctive attribute and connects our inner selves to the outerworld. Yet there is a dark side to the head’s preeminence, one that has, in the courseof human history, manifested itself in everything from decapitation to headhunting.So explains anthropologist Frances Larson in this fascinating history of decapitatedhuman heads. From the Western collectors whose demand for shrunken headsspurred massacres to Second World War soldiers who sent the remains of the Japanesehome to their girlfriends, from Madame Tussaud modeling the guillotined headof Robespierre to Damien Hirst photographing decapitated heads in city morgues,from grave-robbing phrenologists to skull-obsessed scientists, Larson explores ourmacabre fixation with severed heads.
Informazioni bibliografiche
- Titolo del Libro in lingua: Severed
- Sottotitolo: A History of Heads Lost and Heads Found
- Lingua: English
- Autore: Frances Larson
- Editore: Liveright Pub Corp
- Collana: Liveright Pub Corp (Paperback)
- Data di Pubblicazione: 02 Novembre '15
- Genere: HISTORY
- Pagine: 317
- Dimensioni mm: 209 x 139 x 0
- ISBN-10: 1631490990
- EAN-13: 9781631490996