Body And Death
Introduction
This paper presents works of three artists from different cultural backgrounds as an empirical case to examine the response of the public to art work dealing with body and death. In modern Western society youth, beauty and integrity of the body are of major importance. Age and death are often made taboo and excluded from personal life as long as possible. Art works which present the dead body or consist of bodily fluids/body parts, are causing insecurity and a feeling of uncanny by the viewer. It seems to be accepted by people to look at skeletons, they are representing the inorganic remains of former life. The organic parts ("flesh") of bodies seem to be strongly associated with life and integrity of the body even in death.
The Morgue by Andres Serrano (born 1950, New York, USA)
The portraying of dead persons in paintings, drawings and prints has a tradition going back to the 16th century. To a majority these portraits were mostly of members of the ruling class.......
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