The Abstracted Sensation

Colour Me Dead - Chapter 18

How the body is overcome, obliterated, dispersed, atomised

(i) Being Touched

1. 2. 3.

4. 5.

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(ii) Being Embodied

7. 8.

9. 10. 11.

12. 13. 14.

(iii) Being Bodied

15. 16. 17.

18. 19.

20. 21.

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1. Antonio Allegri’s Io and Jupiter (1531)
2. Giuseppe Archimboldo’s Scent (c.1580)
3. Nicolas De Largillière’s Étude de main (1714)
4. Hans Makart’s Four Allegories of Music (1850-1855)
5. Hokusai’s The Great Wave Off Kanagawa (1831)
6. Camille Claudel’s The Wave (1897)

7. Jean Delville’s Satan’s Treasures (1895)
8. Séraphine Soudbinine’s Sleeping Monsters (Supernatural) (1906)
9. Toyen’s Larve I (1934)
10. Hans Bellmer’s A Thousand Girls (1939)
11. Charles Sims’ The Fountain (1907-1908)
12. Charles Sims’ I Am The Abyss And I Am The Light (1928)
13. Virgil Finlay’s The Triggered Dimension (1953)
14. Jackson Pollock’s The Deep (1953)

15. Jean Dubuffet’s The Tree of Fluids (1950)
16. Magda Cordell’s Figure (Woman) (1956-1957)
17. Erro’s Marilyn Monroe (1962)
18. Vangel Naumovski’s Cosmic Cathedral (1968)
19. Lynda Benglis’ Wing (1970)
20. Lynda Benglis’ The Wave Of The World (1983-1984)
21. Alex Grey’s Birth (1990)
22. Angelo Musco’s Tehom (2010)