Defacement: Public Secrecy and the Labor of the Negative

By Michael Taussig

Book Overview

Defacement asks what happens when something precious is despoiled. In specifying the human face as the ideal type for thinking through such violation, this book raises the issue of secrecy as the depth that seems to surface with the tearing of surface.

• Format: Paperback
• Language: English
• ISBN: 0804732000
• ISBN13: 9780804732000
• Release Date: September 1999
• Publisher: Stanford University Press
• Length: 328 Pages
• Weight: 1.20 lbs.
• Dimensions: 0.8" x 6.0" x 9.0"