In any culture governed by a Platonic and aestheticised public ethic this would be pulled down by a baying mob, while Anish Kapoor would be burnt on the mangled and steely bones of his own hubris.
There are bits of mangled face and jaw bones, and a series called Painted Paint, which shows what looks like metal paint cans filled with a violently bright red blood, organs bobbing to the surface.
He didn't have a nose, but a mangled bumpy mess of bone and cartilage crushed into place between his eyes.
Cain's right leg was a mangled slab of splintered bone and stringy red muscles; Blohm knew it couldn't be saved.
As he tells it, he and his colleagues simply announce, as they pick up some mangled fragment of petrified bone, that this one comes from some primitive horse, and that from some long-extinct proto-bird.
This second tranche of Vanderhaeghe's proposed trilogy is assembled out of Indian massacres and a fight to the death with a grizzly bear, night sweats of splintering bone and mangled flesh, and a whiskery cast of "drifters, riverboat men, trappers, muleskinners, bull-whackers, old waddies, and sap-green cowboys".
Mangled limbs with severe bone and soft tissue loss present a clinical challenge in terms of reconstructive surgery, prolonged rehabilitation, physical and psychological demands on the patient, and with no guarantee of a successful outcome.
Emergency workers arrived to find mangled bodies littering the tracks.
They show the mangled bodies of adults and children.
Mangled bodies were strewn among the stones; he recognized a fellow tribesman.
