breaking down the corpse in art
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all manner of the macabre.
d_composition is an art historical take on the body hereafter. Formed at the intersection of visual culture and death, it’s aimed at those who rubberneck for anything morbidly curious. We welcome the presence lurking in the dark, believing that by talking about ‘it’, we cultivate empathy & understanding.
murder most foul
The mythos behind a murder most foul: the assassination of Duke of Buckingham and the commemorative patronage of Katherine Villiers.
the thin veil
A Samhain special on Spiritualism, 19th-century mourning and Ben Cauchi’s photograph, The thin veil.