Damien Hirst: Relics

Damien Hirst: Relics by Hirst, Damien. Hardcover edition. ISBN: 9781906967666.

Relics constitutes the new and largestever retrospective of Damien Hirsts work, including both iconic, and previously unseen artworks, spanning 27 years of the artistscareer. If you own one book on the work of this artist, this is the latest and most comprehensive. For the first time Hirsts two diamond skulls, "For the Love of God" (2007) and "For Heavens Sake" (2008), are pictured together. Explaining, "arts about life and it cant really be about anything else … there isnt anything else," Hirsts work investigates and challenges contemporary belief systems, anddissects the tensions and uncertainties at the heart of human experience.