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Modern Medicine

Hirst, Damien

London. Building One. 1990
The catalogue for 'Modern Medicine'.

From the edition of approximately 500 copies.

Modern Medicine was the first of two highly influential warehouse shows, masterminded by Damien Hirst and curated by him along with Freedman and Sellman at a Bermondsey former factory they designated 'Building One'.

The artists who exhibited were Mat Collishaw, Grainne Cullen, Dominic Denis, Angus Fairhurst, Damien Hirst, Abigail Lane, Miriam Lloyd and Craig Wood.
pp. 40. 4to. (299 x 214 mm). Colour plates and black and white illustrations. Original dark blue stiff card covers with orange title on front cover.
#46203

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