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David Green Dead Body (2016)
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Matthew Day Jackson Me dead at 38 (2009)
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Unknown A Dead Child (17th century)
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Jan van Oost Black Widow (1994)
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Martin Abasi Phiri Casket II (1995)
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Paul Fryer Various (2010 – 2012)
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Shen Shaomin Fidel Castro (2011)
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Jeremy Millar Self-Portrait as a Drowned Man (The Willows) (2011)
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Anonymous The Impossibility of David Bowie being Dead in the Minds of the Living (2019)
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Hyman Bloom Female Corpse, Back View (1947)
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Marlene Dumas Various (2004 – 2009)
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Walter Scheler Dying, Dead (2014)
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Tadeusz Kantor The Dead Class (1975)
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Francesca Woodman Swan Song (2010)
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Rattle in the form of a bloated hanging corpse (A.D. 650–850)
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Jan Andersen Dead Teenagers (2010 – 2016)
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Teresa Margolles Plancha (2010)
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Maurizio Cattelan Is There Life Before Death? (2010)
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Debbie Harry MoCA Annual Gala Performance (2017)
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Eugène Delacroix Liberty Leading the People (detail, 1830)
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Puppies Puppies Untitled (portrait of the artist with no brain) (portrait of the artist after brain surgery) (Sylar (Zachary Quinto) brutally kills Isaac Mendez) (Heroes tv show prop) (Duane Hanson-murdered artist) (2017)
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Sanford Biggers Laocoon (2018)
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Andra Ursuta Various (2012)
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Nujoom Alghanem Passage (2019)
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Nico Weber Five Meditations on Death (2019)
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5 Bodies That Refused to Rot
Saint Betina Zita (died 1272)
Dashi-Dorzho Itigilov (died 1927)
‘La Doncella’ (died 1418)
Lady Xin Zhui (died 163 BCE)
Saint Catherine Laboure (died 1876)
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Michael Zavros Phoebe is dead/McQueen (2010)
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Kyotaro Hakamata Holding Heads (2012)
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Sally Mann The Body Farm (2000 – 2001)
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Yan Pei-Ming Gadhafi’s Corpse (2012)
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Julien Ceccaldi Hooded Corpse (2018)
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IRWIN Corpse of Art (2003)
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Paweł Althamer Homage to Sylwia (2011)
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Edward Kienholz Five Car Stud (1969 – 1972)
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Catalin Badarau Consumerism (2014)
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Berlinde De Bruyckere Various (2018 – 2019)
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Zbigniew Libera Intimate Rites (1984)
‘Zbigniew Libera was active with Kultura Zrzuty (Pitch-In Culture) in Łódż, and drew inspiration from their so-called private and embarrassing art. These ideas were incorporated into Obrzędy Intymne (Intimate Rites), a record of the 24-year-old artist looking after his dying grandmother. Her illness required round-the-clock care – she needed to be fed, changed and washed. Death, as depicted in the film, is somehow shameful, painful and hidden away. Via the mediation of the camera, Libera allows the audience to enter this intimate world as voyeurs.’
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Goran Despotovski The Fate and the Absence of an Individual (2018)
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p.s. Hey. ** scunnard, That could be it. Why not? Great that progress on the site/press is proceeding. Sorry to not have gotten to you with suggestions. Nudging with me is highly recommended. I can get very distracted by whatever I’m working on. Great luck with the hard editing. Do you like editing and revising as much as I do? If I could edit and revise from the very beginning without having to write the draft I’m editing, I would be happy as a clam. I’m good. I think I finally have a US publisher for my new novel, so I’m very happy about that, although it’s not completely official yet. My new GIF novel comes out in May. Working on the new film. Busy, good, doing what’s what, you know. ** Milk, Hi, Milk. You know, it’s very strange, but I don’t think I’ve done a Genet post, which really is truly strange. I’ll make one, but it probably won’t pop up here for a few weeks since I’ve gotten unusually way ahead in my post making duties. Thank you for the suggestion. What set you reading? The Edmund White bio or … ? ** David Ehrenstein, Hi. Well, there is a new accusation against him here in France that’s currently being investigated, so there is some currency to the controversy, rightly or wrongly. His last film was one of the biggest successes of the year in France. He’s not being prevented from making/showing his work or blocked or boycotted, etc. There are just understandably very heated and divided opinions about him and, du jour, about his being rewarded at the Cesars within this cultural moment. And passionate debate and protest is what the French do, and such is life. ** _Black_Acrylic, Hi, B. Sorrentino was one of the big and most well known post-modern American novelist guys when I was younger. He doesn’t get talked about all the much these days, but, yeah his stuff is sharp and very good. You scored ‘3 Women’! I think you’re in for a very big treat, correct me if I’m wrong. ** Steve Erickson, Well, that was a stressful day you had there for sure. The words ‘positive path’ are very good to hear. Collecting Liz Phair under the power pop title is an offbeat decision for sure. I don’t think I ever heard that album. I was never as wild about her stuff, even ‘Guyville’, as the majority seemed to be. Ha ha, the dreaded 6 or 7. ** Okay. Today I give you a sequel to my earlier post Deads with all sorts of new corpsey things to contemplate. Please do. See you tomorrow.
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It you’re doing a Genet Day I hope you’ll spend an ample amount of time on his last book, the posthumously published (days after his death so it was clearly carefully planned) “Prisoner of Love.” There has been virtually ZILCH writing about it here/ A complete departure it’s about the time he spent on the Palestinian refugee camps. A Man who never had a family found one there. This came in the wake of his overwhelming sorrow at the death of the love of his life — a young Arab tightrope walker. Genet had created an elaborate theater piece to showcase him. But the whole thing was so overwhelming (going from extreme poverty to fame) that he killed himself. Nico Papatakis made a film about this starring Michel Piccoli as Genet.. It has never played stateside.
Woemn coming out of the walls with new charges against Roman always happens when the “scandal” reaches a new boiling point. I’ll never forget back when the Samantha Geimer affair first arose an actress named Charlotte Lewis hired ambulance-chaser Gloria Allred and made all sort of charges that went nowhere. What was Roman’s “crime”? He starred her in his film “Pirates” and it was a flop that didn’t help her career (she has since drifted into obscurity and is probably best known for a “Seinfeld” episode she did as a date of Jerry’s he suspects is bulimic ) I have HAD IT with this mass hysteria.
Vegan cry attempts to physically assault Joe Biden.
Good to see more of the dead, Dennis. Funny, I was just looking at an old Shen Shaomin catalog earlier, featuring these fantastic skeletal creatures. A few glimpses here:
https://www.saatchigallery.com/artists/shen_shaomin.htm
Looks like he’s the kind of guy who changes direction a lot. The Castro piece looks really good. The Debbie Harry/MOCA piece looks like a hoot, and not just for the shirtless guys.
Sorry to hear about Steve’s medical issues. Mine are blipping away, but they’re more annoying than anything else.
Finally saw Nemec’s Diamonds of the Night, after your recommendation. The narrative just kept evolving in quietly unexpected ways, very nice.
Bill
Hi Dennis, ok good as long as you don’t mind me nudging as I’d genuinely like your recommendations. Yes I enjoy editing as well, is where everything comes together!
At first I assumed Jan Andersen was a sculptor and the Dead Teenagers were his artworks, but… having checked his website and his other photos, I’m still none the wiser. What is going on there?
Congrats on the US publisher! I hope you can make an official announcement soon.
I’m willing to talk about this in public now that it turned out OK: my doctor thought I was having a diabetic flare-up and tested my blood for blood sugar levels last week. I got the results today, and they are fine. I still don’t know why I’m dizzy, but the suggestions that it had something to do with Klonopin actually were on target. Anyway, my doctor gave me the go-ahead for next week’s cataract surgery. I can’t wait to be able to see better!
Have you heard AN OBSERVATION, the new album by Wrangler, the band featuring Cabaret Voltaire’s Stephen Mallinder? It has an EBM feel, with a touch of the Cabs circa 1983, but the lyrics are almost entirely about the flaws of Internet culture (which is kind of a cliche right now, but sounds pretty good when Mallinder drops them one line at a time over dancefloor bangers.) I am rewriting my Brooklyn Rail article on dance music and punk to add a few sentences about it, since it was released after I turned in my draft.
im in Paris. flight was ok CDG blows so hard. im staying at Clichy a few nights. lots of cute boys everywhere. gotta find the art. going out to
be fat. lets coffee