Damien Hirst: Emergency Paintings, Danger Paintings, Hazard Pictures and Seizures

This book was published on the occasion of the exhibition Damien Hirst: Emergency Paintings, Danger Paintings, Hazard Pictures and Seizures at Gagosian, Britannia Street, London, the third phase of Hirst’s twenty-one-month takeover of the space. The paintings, sculptures, and photographs it documents address the experiences and emotions of warning, danger, crime, rescue, and death, borrowing from the designs on emergency vehicles, the skins of dangerous animals, customs seizures of controlled substances, and media images of police activity.

The volume includes plate, detail, and installation photographs of more than sixty works featured in the exhibition and “Cast Adrift,” an illustrated essay by critic and scholar James Lawrence that situates Hirst’s project within an art historical context.