The phrase "defacement of" is grammatically correct and can be used in written English.
It is often used to describe an act of damaging or vandalizing something, typically a public or private property. Example: The defacement of the historical monument shocked the community and sparked an investigation into the perpetrators.
No individual or organisation has claimed responsibility for the defacement of the pages.
In the postwar period, aesthetics were often a catalyst for the defacement of art.
Return and you will face the absence or the defacement of what you treasured.
TO most people, graffiti is scrawl on the wall, defacement of property.
But the city had another way of describing them: an illegal defacement of the sidewalks.
Ms. Harvey's rapid-fire landscapes are highly illegal, along with any other kind of defacement of public property.
More creative defacements of valuable artworks (not that I'm recommending that anyone do this) range from peeing in Marcel Duchamp's "Fountain" (which is a urinal) to vigorously kissing a Cy Twombly canvas while wearing red lipstick.
Understandably there has been outcry about this, it being the latest in a long line of high profile defacements of public art, notably the Rothko at Tate Modern last year.
Coined by the art-punk band Negativland to describe its parodic defacements of billboards and other mass-media outlets, the phrase encompasses any act of media sabotage, from newspaper hoaxes to computer hacking.
The parents of Mitchell Henderson, a teenager from Rochester, Minnesota, who shot himself in 2006, were subjected to a year and a half of nuisance calls as well as defacements of his MySpace memorial page.
In the outlaw tradition, there are plenty of scurrilous defacements of corporate symbols: the artist Filth transforms Mickey Mouse into a monster mouse with Devil 666 Bear Qee; Ron English's MC Supersized is a stubby, bling-wearing Ronald McDonald.
