Have you ever imagined a museum dedicated to the history of torture and execution from the Dark Ages to the present? Look no further than Chicago’s Medieval Torture Museum. At 6,000 square feet, it’s ...
The English historian James Anthony Froude once said. “Wild animals never kill for sport. Man is the only one to whom the torture and death of his fellow creatures is amusing in itself”. And it would ...
French philosopher Georges Bataille wrote in his 1949 essay The Cruel Practice Of Art that art “puts us on the path of complete destruction and suspends us there for a time, [offering] us ravishment ...