Art and Death
Book Details
Format
Paperback / Softback
Book Series
Art and Series
ISBN-10
1845116631
ISBN-13
9781845116637
Publisher
Bloomsbury Publishing PLC
Imprint
I.B. Tauris
Country of Manufacture
GB
Country of Publication
GB
Publication Date
Jul 29th, 2008
Print length
168 Pages
Weight
360 grams
Dimensions
21.00 x 14.90 x 1.10 cms
Product Classification:
History of art & design styles: from c 1900 -History of art
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Looks at the way contemporary Western artists negotiate death, both as personal experience and in the wider community. This book discusses and moves beyond the 'spectacle of death' in work by artists such as Damien Hirst to see how mortality brings us face to face with profound ethical issues.
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. Exploring the last body of work by the the Kentucky-based photographer Ralph Eugene Meatyard, and Jewish American installation artist Shimon Attie''s powerful memorial work for the community of Aberfan, Townsend considers death in light of the injunction to ''love they neighbour''.
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