What artworks of the past 25 years will we care about in the future? Damien Hirst's 1991 tiger shark suspended in a tank of formaldehyde, The Physical Impossibility of Death in the Mind of Someone Living, should be among them. Why is this work so important? In the past when I have lectured on Hirst, I've focused on the following: Its revision of minimalism, i.e. how it takes the very closed and complete containers of someone like Donald Judd and fills them, in this case with an animal, recalling...
What artworks of the past 25 years will we care about in the future? Damien Hirst's 1991 tiger shark suspended in a tank of formaldehyde, The Physical Impossibility of Death in the Mind of Someone Living, should be among them. Why is this work so important? In the past when I have lectured on Hirst, I've focused on the following: Its revision of minimalism, i.e. how it takes the very closed and complete containers of someone like Donald Judd and fills them, in this case with an animal, recalling...
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