Ebook: The Severed Head: Capital Visions

On drawing; or, the speed of thought -- The skull: cult and art -- Who is Medusa? -- The true image: a holy face -- A digression: economy, figure, face -- The ideal figure; or, a prophesy in actuality: Saint John the Baptist -- Beheadings -- From the guillotine to the abolition of capital punishment -- Powers of horror -- The face and the experience of limits.