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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)

Watch it here

 

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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.’

Watch the film here

 

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Goran Despotovski The Fate and the Absence of an Individual (2018)

 

 

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p.s. RIP Michael Silverblatt. That’s a very sad, tough one. ** Carsten, I think if someone’s response to their work was dislike and the question ‘why?’ that would interest them. They were pretty brainy. They might ask you ‘why not?’ in return. The response time with publishers is all over the place, from quickly all the way to never. It’s really hard to predict in my experience. We got the usual rain and drear this weekend with a maybe forty minute spate of snow. Very light snow, but still. ** jay, I hope you had a very romantic VDay! ** kenley, Yes, and with a name like i_luv_croissant the vulnerability is fully on show. I don’t know of IHoB, but I don’t eat burgers/meat so it could have easily slipped by me. Okay, so … how do you think the bf’s parents found you? If they weren’t delighted and cowed then they’re not worth worrying about. ** Bill, I have seen at least one Schwarzkogler photo in a slave profile. Of a mummification-wanting lad, duh. That shirt is what earned him his spot in that post. ** Thom, Hi, Thom! Welcome, and thank you a lot for coming in here. Cool that you knew ‘PGL’ came from Michael Quercio’s band. It was also the title of a 60s psych song, but I didn’t know that at the time. I was in LA during the paisly underground, and it was big fun to be around. At one time I was working on a psychedelic rock musical project with Michael Quercio, but he was too busy with Game Theory, and we never finished it. That is a score: the Gira. I don’t think I’ve seen it for sale online for less than $400. I’m obviously loving your reading material of the moment. I’m huge on the Nouveau Roman, as you probably know. If you ever find a copy of Robert Pinget’s ‘Fable’, I highly recommend it. Same here: people often assume I’m a total perv sleaze, but I’m just a quiet guy with a weird imagination. High five. All the best to you, and obviously please come back any time. ** Laura, HaRpEr’s playlist was the entirety of my Valentine Day celebration. The escorts probably often steal their photos, so who knows. Mariana Enríquez … have I read her? I don’t think so. I’ll check, and I will read her if I haven’t. I immediately wonder if her title isn’t taken from Gisele Vienne’s and my theater piece ‘This Is How You Will Disappear’. Aw, flowers, nice. Other than Harpers soundtrack, no observance. Just another day. Love back. ** Steve, Oops, but good timing on the doctor. No, I didn’t go to the Titanic thing. May still go. From what I can tell, it’s an immersive experience thing where you’re ‘on’ the Titanic before and after it sinks. I’m hoping it’s an amusement park kind of fun, but it could just be another one of the awful immersive ‘experiences’ that plague warehouse spaces everywhere these days. ** Dominik, Hi!!! You’ve surfaced! Um, yes, err, Zac is actually pretty meticulous and slow in a way that is sometimes hard to work with given my energy bursts, but it’s very well worth it, obviously. The script revision is basically finished. I just have to devise the right setting for one scene that is otherwise already written. Well, seemingly you could try to pursue the dream job while simultaneously doing the ‘boring’ work? No? But I’m rather multitask-y, so I don’t know. So great to see and talk with you! Love is an avid user of psychedelics so if he seems like he’s not interested in you that’s why, G. ** _Black_Acrylic, Dubai! I imagine nothing but sunlight with short nighttime intermissions. I don’t know that Clarke film. Huh. I’ll head over to YouTube and look for it. Thanks, bud. ** Charalampos, Happy just beginning latter half of the month. I wonder how many people could say they were conceived on Valentines Day, but then I guess hardly any of them would know that. Hi from here. ** darbz (⊙ 0⊙ ), Best ‘Flunker’ reading situation ever. Cool: the forthcoming pix. Your mom deserves that blame, word up. I’ll go watch the Xiu Xiu vid when I I’m through here. Nice, thank you, and I hope you got long, deep sleep. ** HaRpEr //, As I told Laura, your playlist constituted my entire Valentines Day occasioning. And it completely did the trick. Great work! Well, I think their thought is that their asses would then become the vortex of others’ desire. They talk a lot about ‘anal orgasms’, but I can’t say that I fully understand how that works. I never expect to have a brain alignment with Deleuze when I’m reading him. I just expect my brain to get a churning massage. Always go with what you’re excited to write. There’s always a good reason. Nice. Sickly energy sounds like a total positive, and I hope it is. ** Okay. Today the blog presents you with the fourth entry in its ‘Deads’ franchise. See you afterwards aka tomorrow.