Damien Hirst - For the Love of God: The Making of the Diamond Skull

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Damien Hirst: For the Love of God: The Making of the Diamond Skull is a focused art book about the creation of Hirst’s famous 2007 diamond skull. Inside, the book includes behind-the-scenes photography, preparatory drawings, production images, diagrams, and a fold-out image of the finished work, showing how the platinum skull set with thousands of diamonds was conceived, designed, and made.

Damien Hirst: For the Love of God: The Making of the Diamond Skull documents the making of one of Damien Hirst’s most iconic and controversial artworks. Published by Other Criteria and White Cube in 2007 to accompany Hirst’s Beyond Belief exhibition, the book gives readers a close look at the process behind For the Love of God, a platinum cast of an eighteenth-century human skull covered with 8,601 diamonds. 

Inside, the book features candid behind-the-scenes photographs by Johnnie Shand Kydd, preparatory drawings by Damien Hirst, production material, diagrams, and a fold-out image of the completed diamond skull. With an essay by art historian Rudi Fuchs and material on the origin of the skull used for the cast, this compact hardcover offers a detailed view of the artwork’s construction, symbolism, and status as a contemporary memento mori.

Author: Damien Hirst, Rudi Fuchs, Jason Beard

Format: Hardcover

Language: English

Pages: 80 pages

Size: 15.7 × 23.8 cm / 6.2 × 9.5 in

Published: 2007

ISBN: 9781904212201

Publisher: Other Criteria

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