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Exquisite Corpse

Name: Exquisite Corpse
Author: Mark Nelson
ISBN: 9780821258194

by Nelson, Mark, Bayliss, Sarah Hudson

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Presenting the most compelling explanation yet for the bizarre nature of the Black Dahlia murder, this volume includes never-before published crime-scene photographs and links the alleged killer to a vast array of influential people.

About the Author, Mark Nelson

Mark Nelson is the design director of Anthony McCall Associates in New York City. He has over fifteen years of experience designing books, brochures, and exhibition graphics for prominent museums, galleries, and artists around the country. He lives in Brooklyn, New York.

Sarah Bayliss has written on art and culture for The New York Times, The Boston Globe, and Conde Nast Traveler, among other publications. She also lives in Brooklyn, New York.

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Sometimes life collides with art in the most violent way. According to Mark Nelson and Sarah Bayliss, that brutal interface played out in the Black Dahlia murder, the unsolved 1947 killing and mutilation of would-be actress Elizabeth Short. Drawing on recent Black Dahlia Avenger revelations about George Hodel, the authors bare links between this savage murder and surrealist art, both before and after the slaying. Exquisite Corpse isn't just hip nouveau art criticism; Nelson and Bayliss here pinpoint direct and near-direction connections between the alleged murderer and influential L.A. artists and filmmakers.