The Destructive Tool

Colour Me Dead - Chapter 11

How the body is punctured, ruptured, penetrated, eviscerated

(i) Slasher Moves

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3. 4.

5. 6. 7.

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(ii) Gun Power

9. 10.

11. 12.

13. 14.

(iii) Wilful Violence

15. 16. 17.

18. 19.

20. 21.

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1. Marcel Duchamp’s L.H.O.O.Q. (1913)
2. Max Ernst’s The Hundred-Headless Woman (1929)
3. Alberto Giacometti’s Disagreeable Object (1931)
4. Alberto Burri’s Rosso plastica (1962)
5. Lucio Fontana’s Spatial Concept, Expectation (1963)
6. Gordon Matta-Clark’s Splitting (1974)
7. Gordon Matta-Clark’s Conical Intersect (1975)
8. Jean-Paul Goude’s Grace Revised And Updated (1978)

9. Niki de Saint Phalle’s Tirs (1961-1963)
10. Jean Tinguely’s Study For An End Of The World No.2 (1962-1963)
11. Chris Burden’s Shoot (1971)
12. Andy Warhol’s Gun (1981)
13. William S. Burroughs' The Painter's Light (1987)
14. William S. Burroughs' Ten Gauge City (1988)

15. John Chamberlain’s Hatband (1960)
16. John Chamberlain’s Miss Lucy Pink (1962)
17. Gunnar Aagaard Andersen’s Portrait Of My Mother’s Chesterfield (1964)
18. Carolee Schneemann’s Fuses (1964-67)
19. Carolee Schneemann’s Nude On Tracks (1975)
20. Diego Velazquez’s Toilet Of Venus (1647-51) - defaced 1914
21. Michelangelo’s Pieta (1498-99) - defaced 1972
22. Chris Ofili’s The Holy Virgin Mary (1996) - defaced 1999