EAN: 9780500519714

Bilder-Quelle: discount24.de - Sport-Freizeit

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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