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From Eros to Thanatos: The Controversial Art of Damien Hirst
Published Nov 18, 2020
Updated Nov 18, 2020
Culture
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Culture
Published Nov 18, 2020
Updated Nov 18, 2020
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From Eros to Thanatos: The Controversial Art of Damien Hirst
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By Claudia Moscovici
Damien Hirst is probably the most controversial and successful artist of our times, particularly if one measures success by how much critical attention art gets and how much it sells for. The founder of the avant-garde Young British Artists and considered to be the richest living artist in Great Britain, Hirst has had more than his share of both positive and negative media attention. The critical and artistic elite, however, hails him as one of the most innovative neoconceptual artists of our times. This is a very high honor, indeed, given that conceptual art has dominated the latter part of the twentieth century and continues to be very popular with critics today.
In most of his work, the philosopher and art critic for The Nation, Arthur Danto, explains the rise of
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