Unlike Mr. Schnabel's crockery-encrusted canvases or Mr. Salle's spooky riffs on alienation, Mr. Fischl's febrile work was representational, deeply personal and obsessed with naked human flesh, mostly female.

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"I was 12 years old and it was beyond cool to see zombies attacking those hapless people, smashing in windows and feasting on human flesh, " iReporter Ivy remembered.

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Imagining one made of human flesh seemed absurd.

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Then the human smells come through: aging flesh, perfume, breath mints, sweat, tobacco.

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Growing human tissue is old hat, but being able to measure activity inside flesh is harder -- any electrical probing tends to damage the cells.

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Created by Ubisoft, ZombiU is a survival-horror, first-person shooter game that puts players in the shoes of a human survivor in the middle of a terrifying plague that has infected modern-day London and turned everyone into flesh-eating zombies.

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Garbo still belongs to that moment in cinema when capturing the human face still plunged audiences into the deepest ecstasy, when one literally lost oneself in a human image as one would in a philtre, when the face represented a kind of absolute state of the flesh, which could be neither reached nor renounced.

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