Art and Death

by Chris Townsend

Book Overview

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...

• Format: Paperback
• Language: English
• ISBN: 1845116631
• ISBN13: 9781845116637
• Release Date: July 2008
• Publisher: I. B. Tauris & Company
• Length: 168 Pages
• Weight: 0.95 lbs.
• Dimensions: 0.5" x 5.7" x 8.1"