The Mortician's Mask

Colour Me Dead - Chapter 15

How the artist, muse and body appear, imprint, contain, resemble

(i) Immortalized Faces

1. 2. 3.

4. 5. 6.

(ii) Traumatized Faces

7. 8. 9.

10. 11. 12.

13.

(iii) Plasticized Faces

14. 15. 16.

17. 18. 19.

20. 21.

22. 23. 24.

1. Jacques-Louis David’s The Death of Marat (1793)
2. Jacques-Raymond Brascassat’s The Head of Giuseppe Fieschi After His Execution (1836)
3. Emile Beau’s Facial Muscles Viewed From The Inner Face (1847-1850)
4. Leon Bonnat’s Victor Hugo on his Deathbed (1885)
5. (unknown) Death mask of L’Inconnue de la Seine (c.1888)
6. Paul Richer’s Descartes Skull (1913)

7. Käthe Kollwitz’s Mother With Dead Child (1903)
8. Otto Dix’s Dead Man (St. Clément) (1924)
9. Victor Brauner’s Self-portrait with Enucleated Eye (1931)
10. Jean Fautrier’s Head Of A Hostage (c.1945)
11. Andy Warhol’s Marilyn (1962)
12. Chuck Close’s Big Self-Portrait (1967-1968)
13. Ana Mendieta’s Self Portrait With Blood (1973)

14. Ed Gein's victim face mask (c.1954)
15. Joel-Peter Witkin’s The Kiss (1982)
16. Frank Auerbach’s Head Of E.O.W. (1954)
17. The National Library of Medicine's Visible Human Project (1986-1994)
18. Marc Quinn’s Self (Quinn) (1990)
19. Jocelyn Wildenstein’s facial plastic surgery (c.1995)
20. Stan Winston's special effects make-up for Michael Jackson's GHOSTS (1997)
21. (unknown) Photo mosaic War President (2004)
22. Walter Schels’s Life Before Death - Beate Taube (2004)
23. Marlene Dumas ’s Dead Marilyn (2008)
24. Martin Schoeller’s Paris Hilton, Close Up (2008)