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Death : from dust to destiny

Title: Death : from dust to destiny / Richard Brilliant.
Author: Brilliant, Richard.
Publication: London, UK : Reaktion Books, 2017.

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245 pages : illustrations (some color); 24 cm

Summary

The terms 'birth' and 'death' have long denoted the apparent boundaries of our biological lives, situating in time the moments of coming to be and passing away. Yet the specific trajectory of a life can surpass its temporal boundaries. Long after the perishing of the body, and of its physical remains, the individual's ethos can endure in the collective memories of survivors and subsequent generations. Such remnants have been created by rituals, reinforced through commemorations and obituaries, and projected through art and architecture. These powerful inducements to remember counter the finality of physical death, bridging the gap between absence and presence. 'Death: From Dust to Destiny', featuring a wide-ranging collection of texts and images together with the author's guiding commentary, offers a reflective meditation on the methods that artists, architects and writers have developed to activate memory, and animate their subjects into a - possibly - unending afterlife. In this process death need no longer be a terminal departure but can become a new form of existence in the minds of others.

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Includes bibliographical references (pages 225-226) and index.

Contents

Monuments of a recognizable kind eliciting memory of the departed -- Grave matters -- Mourning becomes... -- The remains -- On the verge of death -- After all, we die, and then?

Call Number

JQE 17-1304

ISBN

9781780237251
1780237251

OCLC

952368768

Author

Brilliant, Richard.

Title

Death : from dust to destiny / Richard Brilliant.

Publisher

London, UK : Reaktion Books, 2017.

Type of Content

text

still image

Type of Medium

unmediated

Type of Carrier

volume

Bibliography

Includes bibliographical references (pages 225-226) and index.

Research Call Number

JQE 17-1304

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