The Body of Evidence

Colour Me Dead - Chapter 14

What the body becomes, proves, states, encodes.

(i) The Living Body

1. 2. 3.

4. 5. 6.

(ii) The Dying Body

7. 8. 9.

10. 11.

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(iii) The Dead Body

13. 14. 15.

16. 17.

18. 19.

20. 21.

22. 23.

1. (unknown) The Belvedere Torso (100-200 BC)
2. Peter Paul Rubens’s Bacchus (1638-1640)
3. Rembrandt’s The Anatomy Lesson of Dr. Nicolaes Tulp (1632)
4. (unknown) The Death Of A Noble Lady & The Decay Of Her Body (1700 c)
5. Jacques-Fabien Gautier d'Agoty’s General Anatomy of Viscera (1754)
6. Jan van Rymsdyk’s Dissection of a Pregnant Uterus (1774)

7. Auguste Clésinger’s Woman Bitten By A Snake (1847)
8. Paul Richer’s Attaque Demoniaque (1881)
9. Adolphe Menzel’s The Artist's Hand with an Ice Cube (1864)
10. Thomas Eakins’s The Gross Clinic (1875)
11. Adolphe Zeigler’s The Four Elements (1937)
12. Ivan Allbright’s The Picture of Dorian Gray (1943)

13. Marcel Duchamp’s Female Fig Leaf (1950-1951)
14. Robert Wiles' Suicide (1947)
15. Andy Warhol's Suicide (Fallen Body) (1963)
16. Alina Szapocznikow’s Dessert Parts I-III (1970-1971)
17. Helmet Newton’s They Are Coming Naked & Dressed (1981)
18. George Segal’s The Holocaust (1982)
19. Jana Sterbak’s Vanitas: Flesh Dress for an Albino Anorexic (1987)
20. Jenny Holzer’s Lustmord (1993-1994)
21. Ron Mueck’s Big Man (2000)
22. Eric Fischl’s Tumbling Woman (2001-2004)
23. Fernando Botero’s Abu-Grahib (2005)