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Defacementis a type of vandalism that involves damaging the appearance or surface of
something. The object of damage may be architecture, books, paintings, sculpture
or other forms of art.
Examples of
defacement include:
Marking or removing the part of an object
(especially images, be they on the page, in illustrative art or as a sculpture)
designed to hold the viewers' attention
Scoring a book cover with a blade
Splashing paint over a painting in a
gallery
Smashing the nose of a sculpted bust
Iconoclasm
led to the defacement of many religious artworks.
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