BIBLIOGRAPHY
Below a list of selected literature on different topics that I regularly consult for my artistic research.
Last updated: October 2020
Hanna Arendt, On Violence.
Karen Armstrong, Fields of Blood.
Rudolf Arnheim, Entropy and Art: an Essay on Disorder and Order.
Alejandro Arozamena & Dario Corbeira, Expanded Violences.
Jörg Baberowski, Räume Der Gewalt.
Étienne Balibar, Violence and Civility: on the Limits of Political Philosophy.
Stephen Barber, The Art of Destruction: the Films of the Vienna Action Group.
Georges Bataille, Visions of Excess: Selected Writings 1927-1939.
Jean Baudrillard, The Spirit of Terrorism and Other Essays.
Richard J. Bernstein, Violence: Thinking without Banisters.
Joel Black, The Aesthetics of Murder: a Study in Romantic Literature and Contemporary Culture.
Margaret Ervin Bruder, Aestheticizing Violence, or How to Do Things with Style.
Ian Buruma, Theater of Cruelty: Art, Film, and the Shadows of War.
Randall Collins, Violence: a Micro-Sociological Theory.
Lorne Dwight Conquergood & E. Patrick Johnson, Cultural Struggles: Performance, Ethnography, Praxis.
Gilles Deleuze, Francis Bacon: the Logic of Sensation.
Hans Hartog den Jager, Het Sublieme: Het Einde Van De Schoonheid En Een Nieuw Begin.
Florike Egmond & Robert Zwijnenberg, Bodily Extremities: Preoccupations with the Human Body in Early Modern European Culture.
Brad Evans & Terrell Carver, Histories of Violence: Post-War Critical Thought.
John Fraser, Violence in the Arts.
Dario Gamboni, The Destruction of Art: Iconoclasm and Vandalism since the French Revolution.
Francisco Goya, The Disasters of War.
Valentin Groebner, Defaced: the Visual Culture of Violence in the Late Middle Ages.
Douglas Hedley, Sacrifice Imagined: Violence, Atonement, and the Sacred.
Lode Lauwaert, Filosofie Van Geweld.
Bruce B. Lawrence & Aisha Karim, On Violence: a Reader.
Frank Lentricchia & Jody McAuliffe, Crimes of Art and Terror.
Graham Matthews & Sam Goodman, Violence and the Limits of Representation.
Anne L. McClanan & Jeffrey Johnson, Negating the Image: Case Studies in Iconoclasm.
Ann Millett-Gallant, The Disabled Body in Contemporary Art.
Andrew J. Mitchell, Heidegger among the Sculptors: Body, Space, and the Art of Dwelling.
Linda Nochlin, The Body in Pieces: the Fragment as a Metaphor of Modernity.
Heather S. Orr, & Rex Koontz, Blood and Beauty: Organized Violence in the Art and Archaeology of Mesoamerica and Central America.
Erminia Passannanti, Il Corpo & Il Potere: SALÒ o Le 120 Giornate Di Sodoma Di Pier Paolo Pasolini.
Mark Pizzato, Theatres of Human Sacrifice: from Ancient Ritual to Screen Violence.
Adrian Raine, The Anatomy of Violence: the Biological Roots of Crime.
Larry J. Ray, Violence & Society.
Elaine Scarry, The Body in Pain: the Making and Unmaking of the World.
Nancy Scheper-Hughes & Philippe I. Bourgois, Violence in War and Peace: an Anthology.
Willem Schinkel, Aspects of Violence: a Critical Theory.
Martin Seel, Aesthetics of Appearing.
Susan Sontag, Regarding the Pain of Others.
Eric R. Varner, Mutilation and Transformation: Damnatio Memoriae and Roman Imperial Portraiture.
Slavoj Žižek, Violence: Sideways Reflections.