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02841aam a2200373Ii 4500 001 3ECF1F4E475911E7B35354A3DAD10320 003 SILO 005 20170602010157 008 161209s2017 miua b 001 0 eng d 020 $a 9780472130290 020 $a 0472130293 035 $a (OCoLC)965764072 040 $a YDX $b eng $e rda $c YDX $d NUI $d WEA $d SILO 050 4 $a RD118.3 $b .B54 2017 082 04 $a 700 100 1 $a Biernoff, Suzannah, $e author. 245 10 $a Portraits of violence : $b war and the aesthetics of disfigurement / $c Suzannah Biernoff. 264 1 $a Ann Arbor : $b University of Michigan Press, $c ââ2017. 300 $a viii, 213 pages : $b illustrations ; $c 24 cm. 490 1 $a Corporealities : Discourses of disability 520 8 $a 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 about the medical, military, and psychological response to serious combat injuries. While these issues remain urgent, it is equally crucial to interrogate the representation of war and injury. The concepts of valor, heroism, patriotism, and courage assume visible form and do their cultural work when they are personified and embodied. The mutilated or disabled veteran's body can connote the brutalizing, dehumanizing potential of modern combat. Suzannah Biernoff draws on a wide variety of sources mainly from WWI but also contemporary photography and computer games. Each chapter revolves around particular images: Marine Wedding is discussed alongside Stuart Griffiths' portraits of British veterans; Henry Tonks' drawings of WWI facial casualties are compared to the medical photographs in the Gillies Archives; the production of portrait masks for the severely disfigured is approached through the lens of documentary film and photography; and finally the haunting image of one of Tonks's patients reappears in BioShock, a highly successful computer game. The book simultaneously addresses a neglected area in disability studies; puts disfigurement on the agenda for art history and visual studies; and makes a timely and provocative contribution to the literature on the First World War. 504 $a Includes bibliographical references and index. 650 0 $a Mutilation $x Treatment. 650 0 $a War wounds $x Treatment. 650 0 $a Prosthesis $v Case studies. 650 0 $a Theatrical prosthetic makeup. 650 0 $a Disabled veterans $x Rehabilitation. 650 0 $a Disfigured persons $x Treatment. 650 0 $a Surgery, Plastic. 830 0 $a Corporealities. 941 $a 1 952 $l USUX851 $d 20170802024404.0 956 $a http://locator.silo.lib.ia.us/search.cgi?index_0=id&term_0=3ECF1F4E475911E7B35354A3DAD10320 994 $a 92 $b IWAInitiate Another SILO Locator Search