The Crime Scene

Colour Me Dead - Chapter 13

Where both artist and body are documented, traced, incriminated, analysed

(i) Staging Theatre

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(ii) Reporting Crime

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(iii) Staging Crime

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1. Thomas Couture’s The Romans Of Decadence (1847)
2. Jean-Joseph Weerts’ La mort de Bara (1880)
3. Antoine Wiertz’s Hunger, Madness, Crime (1853)
4. Henri-Camille Danger’s Fléau (1901)
5. Franz Stuck’s The War (1894)

6. Edgar Degas' L'interieur (1868-69)
7. Walter Sickert’s The Camden Town Murder (1907-09)
8. George Grosz’s John The Sex Murderer (1918)
9. Otto Dix’s The War (1929-32)
10. Hippolyte Bayard’s Self Portrait As A Drowned Man (1840)
11. Alphonse Bertillon’s Assasinat des epoux M. (1909)
12. Paul Nougé’s Subversion des images (1929-30)
13. Pablo Picasso’s The Murder (1934)

14. Max Ernst’s Europe After The Rain (1940-42)
15. Iri & Toshi Maruki’s The Hiroshima Panels (1950-1982)
16. Robert Rauschenberg’s Bed (1955)
17. Salvidor Dali’s The Railway Station At Perpignan (1965)
18. Duane Hanson’s Race Riot (1969-71)
19. Cindy Sherman’s Untitled #153 (1985)
20. Francis Bacon’s Blood On The Floor (1986)
21. Robert Polidori’s 6328 North Milo Street (2005)