Death Aesthetization in Contemporary Artistic Practices

Starting from the famous and enigmatic quotation of the Aristotle’s Poetics, who argues that the human has a natural desire and pleasure to see corpses if mediated by art, is intended to show the relationship between the attraction for the horror and some contemporary art practices surrounding the...

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Main Author: Teresa Lousa
Format: Article
Language:English
Published: Universidad Complutense de Madrid 2016-04-01
Series:Arte, Individuo y Sociedad
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Online Access:https://revistas.ucm.es/index.php/ARIS/article/view/50047