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Constructing the Impossible Post-Mortem Self-Portrait. A reflection on the artificial staging of death for aesthetic purpose, with specific studies dedicated to Sean Ellis, Gregory Crewdson, Paul Thek and Marina Abramovic. [thesis]/ Sara dowling.

By: Material type: TextTextPublication details: Limerick : Limerick School of Art and Design/LIT, 2015. Description: 40 p. : col. ill. : 30cmSubject(s): DDC classification:
  • Thesis Fine Art 15/08
Dissertation note: This text addresses the representation of the deceased cadaver in contemporary art, including studies of artists working within the realms of Fashion, Sculpture, Photography and Performance. Issues of aesthetics relative to historic death culture, alongside the desolate Victorian female, Freudian death theory and the visual duplication of the remorse are all discussed in relation to the construed elements of artistic morbidity in the modern day.Thesis submitted for B.A. Hons in Fine Art (Painting) 2015.
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This text addresses the representation of the deceased cadaver in contemporary art, including studies of artists working within the realms of Fashion, Sculpture, Photography and Performance. Issues of aesthetics relative to historic death culture, alongside the desolate Victorian female, Freudian death theory and the visual duplication of the remorse are all discussed in relation to the construed elements of artistic morbidity in the modern day.

Thesis submitted for B.A. Hons in Fine Art (Painting) 2015.

Includes bibliographical references

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