Damien Hirst’s Shark: Nature, Capitalism and the Sublime
Resource type
Journal article
Creator (person)
White, Luke
Date published
2010
Abstract
Focusing on Damien Hirst’s The Physical Impossibility of Death in the Mind of Someone Living 1991 which contains a preserved shark, this paper explores the longer cultural resonance of sharks as exemplars of the natural sublime. The paper argues that the shark, in Hirst’s work and elsewhere, is a figure which intertwines an aesthetic of terrible nature with the capitalist sublime
Journal title
Tate Papers
Issue
14
Publisher
Tate
Place of publication
UK
ISSN
1753-9854
Rights statement
In Copyright