_Lipstick Traces_ by Greil Marcus relates how after WWI photo collections of wounded soldiers were passed around like pornography, showing disfigurements so biz

_Lipstick Traces_ by Greil Marcus relates how after WWI photo collections of wounded soldiers were passed around like pornography, showing disfigurements so bizarre they approached the abstractions of modern art. The book traces a line of underground artistic influence from WWI to punk rock.