The severed head : capital visions /
Kristeva, Julia,1941-
New York : Columbia University Press,
c2012.
Includes bibliographical references and index.
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.
Head in art.
Beheading in art.
Art, European