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dc.identifier	ECF_article_15216
dc.title	The Visual Afterlife of les gueules cassées: Artistic Reception from the Interbellum to documenta 13
dc.contributor.author	Timonina Alexandra
dc.publisher	Edizioni Ca’ Foscari - Venice University Press, Fondazione Università Ca’ Foscari
dc.type	Research Article
dc.language.iso	en
dc.identifier.uri	http://edizionicafoscari.it/en/edizioni4/riviste/venezia-arti/2023/1/the-visual-afterlife-of-les-gueules-cassees-artist/
dc.description.abstract	The article discusses the representation of facial and bodily deformation as both a subject and an expressive means in diverse artistic media throughout the twentieth century until today. First, it wishes to provide a bibliographical overview of the recent research that delves into the problem from diverse methodologies. Second, it aims at tracing a timeline of how the imagery of ‘broken faces’, sometimes not directly related to the gueules cassées, yet persistent and recognisable, changed its use as a trope in the hands of modern and contemporary artists. Their works bear similarities in the dramatic accent on the deformation and decomposition of the body used to narrate collective trauma and a sense of confusion. Finally, the essay wishes to illustrate the complexity of this type of representation by contextualising some artworks within social and ethical contexts.
dc.relation.ispartof	Venezia Arti
dc.relation.ispartof	Vol. 32 \| December 2023
dc.issued	2023-12-20
dc.dateSubmitted	2023-08-31
dc.identifier.issn
dc.identifier.eissn	2385-2720
dc.rights	Creative Commons Attribution 4.0 International Public License
dc.rights.uri	http://creativecommons.org/licenses/by/4.0/
dc.identifier.doi	10.30687/VA/2385-2720/2023/01/006
dc.peer-review	yes
dc.subject	Body
dc.subject	Facial Mutilations
dc.subject	Modernism
dc.subject	Trauma

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The Visual Afterlife of les gueules cassées: Artistic Reception from the Interbellum to documenta 13

Alexandra Timonina Università Ca’ Foscari Venezia, Italia

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The article discusses the representation of facial and bodily deformation as both a subject and an expressive means in diverse artistic media throughout the twentieth century until today. First, it wishes to provide a bibliographical overview of the recent research that delves into the problem from diverse methodologies. Second, it aims at tracing a timeline of how the imagery of ‘broken faces’, sometimes not directly related to the gueules cassées, yet persistent and recognisable, changed its use as a trope in the hands of modern and contemporary artists. Their works bear similarities in the dramatic accent on the deformation and decomposition of the body used to narrate collective trauma and a sense of confusion. Finally, the essay wishes to illustrate the complexity of this type of representation by contextualising some artworks within social and ethical contexts.

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Dec. 20, 2023

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Aug. 31, 2023

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Keywords: Body • Facial Mutilations • Trauma • Modernism

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