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This highly sensitive and beautifully written book looks closely at the way contemporary Western artists negotiate death, both as personal experience and in the wider community. Townsend discusses but moves beyond the 'spectacle of death' in work by artists such as Damien Hirst to see how mortality - in particular the experience of other people's death - brings us face to face with profound ethical and even political issues. He looks at personal responses to death in the work of artists as varied as Francis Bacon, Tracey Emin and Derek Jarman, whose film 'Blue' is discussed here in depth. Expl No library descriptions found. |
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Google Books — Loading... GenresMelvil Decimal System (DDC)700.4548The arts Modified subdivisions of the arts Standard subdivisions of the arts Special topics in the arts Cycle of lifeLC ClassificationRatingAverage: No ratings.Is this you?Become a LibraryThing Author. |