Towards an Iconography of the Dismembered Body

The article is an iconographic essay on the motif of the dismembered body. Due to the ubiquitous presence of images of dismembered bodies in the Mexican media, the author analyses the meanings this motif has conveyed, in order to understand the way images of dismemberment operate to produce an emoti...

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Detalles Bibliográficos
Autor: Rojas Lopez, Maria Isabel
Tipo de recurso: artículo
Estado:Versión publicada
Fecha de publicación:2020
País:México
Institución:UNIVERSIDAD AUTÓNOMA DEL ESTADO DE HIDALGO
Repositorio:MAGOTZI Boletín Científico de Artes del IA
Idioma:español
OAI Identifier:oai:repository.uaeh.edu.mx:article/5553
Acceso en línea:https://repository.uaeh.edu.mx/revistas/index.php/ia/article/view/5553
Access Level:acceso abierto
Palabra clave:bildwissenschaft
dismemberment
iconography
visual studies
violence
desmembramiento
iconografía
estudios visuales
violencia
Descripción
Sumario:The article is an iconographic essay on the motif of the dismembered body. Due to the ubiquitous presence of images of dismembered bodies in the Mexican media, the author analyses the meanings this motif has conveyed, in order to understand the way images of dismemberment operate to produce an emotional reaction in the viewer. Influenced by the methods of the science of the image in German Scholarship (Bildwissenschaft), the article advances the application of an iconographical method to address the way images of violence operate.