Gedonist operation of death in modern mass art

The article is devoted to the exploitation of the theme of death in modern mass art. The article also highlights the destructive phenomena typical of modern mass culture in its constant striving to represent violence and death. With the emergence of mass culture and the consumer society, the general vector of changing the representation of violence in all forms of art is directed from aesthetically smoothed images to spectacular, vivid scenes that we associate with the beginning of the postmodern era.