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Death
A Graveside Companion
Langbeschreibung
A volume of unprecedented breadth and sinister beauty, Death: A Graveside Companion examines a staggering range of cultural attitudes to death within seven themed chapters. Nineteen experts contribute thought-provoking essays on specific aspects of humanity's cultural legacy of ideas concerning death. The essays are followed by gallery pages presenting a breathtaking variety of death-related imagery drawn from every major culture, from Neolithic China and Bronze Age Mexico to medieval Germany, 18th-century Nepal and 20th-century France. From catacombs, crypts and bone-pits to reliquaries, embalmings and mummies, and from memento mori, vanitas and danse macabre to vernacular tokens, found photography and curios from bygone rituals, this astonishing compendium features more than 1,000 images and incorporates high art, kitsch and all points in between.
Inhaltsverzeichnis
1. The Art of Dying . 2. Examining the Dead . 3. Memorialising the Dead . 4. The Personification of Death . 5. Symbolising Death . 6. Death as Amusement . 7. The Dead After Life
Joanna Ebenstein is the author of The Anatomical Venus and cofounder of the Morbid Anatomy Museum in Brooklyn, New York.
ISBN-13:
9780500519714
Veröffentl:
2017
Erscheinungsdatum:
26.10.2017
Seiten:
368
Autor:
Joanna Ebenstein
Gewicht:
1849 g
Format:
273x217x37 mm
Sprache:
Englisch