Portraits of violence: war and the aesthetics of disfigurement
- Submitting institution
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Birkbeck College
- Unit of assessment
- 32 - Art and Design: History, Practice and Theory
- Output identifier
- 802
- Type
- A - Authored book
- DOI
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- Publisher
- The University of Michigan Press
- ISBN
- 9780472122691
- Open access status
- Out of scope for open access requirements
- Month of publication
- May
- Year of publication
- 2017
- URL
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- Supplementary information
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- Request cross-referral to
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- Output has been delayed by COVID-19
- No
- COVID-19 affected output statement
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- Forensic science
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- Criminology
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- Interdisciplinary
- No
- Number of additional authors
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0
- Research group(s)
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- Proposed double-weighted
- Yes
- Double-weighted statement
- Portraits of Violence is the first monograph to address the cultural legacy of disfigurement in the modern period. It has been received as a major contribution to the literature on disability and the politics of representation. Drawing on an unusually wide variety of sources (from surgical illustrations, case files and press clippings to portraits and computer games), the study required complex levels of analysis and an engagement with different disciplinary perspectives. It examines a neglected topic in disability studies, puts disfigurement on the agenda for art history and visual studies, and is a provocative addition to the literature on WWI
- Reserve for an output with double weighting
- No
- Additional information
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- Author contribution statement
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- Non-English
- No
- English abstract
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