
Art and Death
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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 eth...
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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 eth...
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