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 neighbor."
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