Damien Hirst: From the Cradle to the Grave, Selected Drawings

By Damien Hirst and Annuska Shani

From the Cradle to the Grave presents a key selection of drawings and sketches produced by the famed English artist and provocateur Damien Hirst over the past 15 years. For Hirst, drawing is a way of maintaining the flow of imagination, and he does it constantly. Ranging from raw, impulsive sketches to detailed and well-thought-out drawings, these works allow us to explore the artist's preoccupations and passions and his fascination with the ambiguity at the heart of human experience: the confusing relations between art and life, life and death, image and reality, communion and isolation. The drawings are complemented by a selection of thumbnail photographs of finished sculptures and paintings. Accompanying essays by well-known writers Annuska Shani and A. A. Gill help the reader make connections between the drawings and Hirst's other works of art. Exquisitely produced using a six-color printing process, From the Cradle to the Grave illuminates how Hirst's compelling drawings were conceived and shows us the vitality behind their creation.

• Format: Hardcover
• Language: English
• ISBN: 1904212034
• ISBN13: 9781904212034
• Release Date: March 2005
• Publisher: Other Criteria
• Length: 352 Pages
• Weight: 8.50 lbs.
• Dimensions: 1.8" x 12.0" x 15.0"
• Age Range: 13 years and up
• Grade Range: Grade 8 to Postsecondary