The bulk of art we see from ancient Egypt was made for tombs. The thousands of terracotta soldiers from Han Dynasty China or porcelain sculptures in Tang Dynasty China were made to protect the deceased.
Marne Lucas wants to go back to the death. [...] it's really hard to get folks to go see work about death and dying.
Art had other priorities than death as it veered away, addressing power, protest, gender, and a complexing world, which leaves death as an abstract concept.
Getting people to engage with her Bardo Project, where she collaborates with artists with life-limiting illnesses, has been challenging, revealing society's discomfort with death.
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