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. A
volume of unprecedented breadth and sinister beauty, Death: A
Graveside Companion examines a staggering range of cultural
attitudes toward death. The book is organized into themed chapters:
The Art of Dying, Examining the Dead, Memorializing the Dead, The
Personification of Death, Symbolizing Death, Death as Amusement,
and The Dead After Life. Each chapter begins with thought-provoking
articles by curators, academics, and journalists followed by
gallery spreads presenting a breathtaking variety of death-related
imagery and artifacts. From skulls to the dance of death,
statuettes to ex libris, memento mori to memorabilia, the majority
of the images are of artifacts in the astonishing collection of
Richard Harris and range from 2000 BCE to the present day, running
the gamut of both high and popular culture. Essays: Death in
Ancient and Present-Day Mexico, Eva Aridjis,The Power of Hair as
Human Relic in Mourning Jewelry - Karen Bachmann, Medusa and the
Power of the Severed Head, Laetitia Barbier, Anatomical
Expressionism, Eleanor Crook, Poe and the Pathological Sublime,
Mark Dery, Eros and Thanatos, Lisa Downing, Death-Themed
Amusements, Joanna Ebenstein, The Nutshell Studies of Unexplained
Death, Bruce Goldfarb, Theatre, Death and the Grand Guignol, Mel
Gordon, Holy Spiritualism, Elizabeth Harper, Playing dead - A
Gruesome Form of Amusement, Mervyn Heard, The Anatomy of Holy
Transformation, Liselotte Hermes da Fonseca, Collecting Death, Evan
Michelson, Art and Afterlife: Ethel le Rossignol and Georgiana
Houghton, Mark Pilkington, The Dance of Death, Kevin Pyle, Art,
Science and the Changing Conventions of Anatomical Representation,
Michael Sappol, Spiritualism and Photography, Shannon Taggart,
Playing with Dead Faces, John Troyer, Anatomy Embellished in the
Cabinet of Frederik Ruysch, Bert van de Roemer 900 illustrations in
color and black and white
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