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Death : a graveside companion
- Title
- Death : a graveside companion / edited by Joanna Ebenstein ; foreword by Will Self.
- Publication
- New York : Thames & Hudson, 2017
- ©2017
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Available - Can be used on site. Please visit New York Public Library - Schwarzman Building to submit a request in person. | Text | Use in library | JQF 18-59 | Schwarzman Building - Art & Architecture Room 300 |
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- Description
- 367 pages : illustrations; 28 cm
- Summary
- The ultimate death compendium, featuring the world's most extraordinary artistic objects concerned with mortality, together with text by expert contributors. Death is an inevitable fact of life. Throughout the centuries, humanity has sought to understand this sobering thought through art and ritual. The theme of memento mori informs medieval Danse Macabre, the Tibetan Book of the Dead, Renaissance paintings of dissected corpses and "anatomical Eves," Gothic literature, funeral effigies, Halloween, and paintings of the Last Judgment. Deceased ancestors are celebrated in the Mexican Day of the Dead, while the ancient Egyptians mummified their dead to secure their afterlife.
- Subjects
- Note
- "Featureing Richard Harris art collection"--Cover.
- Bibliography (note)
- Includes bibliographical references (pages 362-364) and index.
- Call Number
- JQF 18-59
- ISBN
- 9780500519714
- 0500519714
- LCCN
- 2017931788
- OCLC
- 1009363043
- Title
- Death : a graveside companion / edited by Joanna Ebenstein ; foreword by Will Self.
- Publisher
- New York : Thames & Hudson, 2017
- Copyright Date
- ©2017
- Type of Content
- textstill image
- Type of Medium
- unmediated
- Type of Carrier
- volume
- Bibliography
- Includes bibliographical references (pages 362-364) and index.
- Added Author
- Ebenstein, Joanna, 1971- editor.Self, Will, writer of foreword.
- Research Call Number
- JQF 18-59