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Defigure

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De`fig´ure
v. t.1.To delineate.
These two stones as they are here defigured.
- Weever.


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Thus, the aesthetic force behind the wall-size display of the fifteen white canvases that constitute Delacroix defigure (La Mort de Sardanapale) (Delacroix disfigured [Death of Sardanapalus]), 1989, results from a principle as ironic as it is simple: Where each face appears in a famous painting, the artist hung a white canvas known as Figure--literally, "face"--which was traditionally used for portraits and whose dimensions could vary but not its proportions.
 
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