Manuel Abella

Naked corpses

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NAKED CORPSES

I could not love except where Death Was mingling his with Beauty’s breath...
(Edgar Allan Poe, Romance, 1829)
The representation of death invokes violent feelings in the viewer. The gaze, a mixture of attraction and repulsion where disgust readily marries fascination in what we can call the poetry of horror.