EAN: 9780500519714

DEATH - JOANNA EBENSTEIN GEBUNDEN

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.

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