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9781845116637
This text 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 brings us face to face with profound ethical and even political issues.Townsend, Chris is the author of 'Art and Death', published 2008 under ISBN 9781845116637 and ISBN 1845116631.
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