The Severed Head: Capital Visions PB_Gift_Guide Once upon a time

Once upon a time

hippos don't use them for eating-only for fighting

when Cora decides she needs a different direction

encounter unfamiliar masterworks and rediscover old favorites

The Severed Head: Capital Visions PB_Gift_Guide Once upon a timeInformed by a provocative exhibition at the Louvre curated by the author, The Severed Head unpacks artistic representations of severed heads from the Paleolithic period to the present. Surveying paintings, sculptures, and drawings, Julia Kristeva turns her famed critical eye to a study of the head as symbol and metaphor, as religious object and physical fact, further developing a critical theme in her workthe power of horrorand the potential for the