Death : a graveside companion / edited by Joanna Ebenstein ; foreword by Will Self.

Death is the one 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,...

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Other Authors:	Ebenstein, Joanna, 1971- (Editor) Self, Will (writer of foreword.) Harris, Richard (Collector) (Contributor)
Language:	English
Published:	London : Thames & Hudson, 2017.
Subjects:	Death in art. Death in literature. Memorialization. Death > History. Funeral rites and ceremonies > History. Mourning customs > History. Attitude to Death. Medicine in the Arts. Anatomy, Artistic > history. Thanatology. Death. Funeral rites and ceremonies. Mourning customs. Family and Relationships. History. Illustrated works.
Genre:	History. Illustrated works.
Physical Description:	367 pages : colour illustrations, facsimiles ; 28 cm
Variant Title:	Graveside companion
Format:	Book

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