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Art and Death

Art and Death

by Chris Townsend
Paperback
Publication Date: 30/07/2008
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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. 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'.
ISBN:
9781845116637
9781845116637
Category:
History of art & design styles: from c 1900 -
Format:
Paperback
Publication Date:
30-07-2008
Language:
English
Publisher:
Bloomsbury Publishing PLC
Country of origin:
United Kingdom
Pages:
168
Dimensions (mm):
210x148x13mm
Weight:
0.32kg
Chris Townsend

Chris Townsend's recent publications include The Art of Tracey Emin (co-edited with Prof. Mandy Merck, 2002) and The Art of Rachel Whiteread (2004).

Forthcoming volumes include the monographs A World at Random: The Art of Boyle Family (2005) and New Art from London (2006).

Curated exhibitions include Rapture: Art's Seduction by Fashion, 1970-2000 (Barbican Art Gallery, 2002) and The Ugly Show (Leeds Metropolitan University Art Gallery, 1998).

He is a lecturer in the Department of Media Arts, Royal Holloway, University of London.

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