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Lebenszeichen

By Franca Buss

Lebenszeichen

By Franca Buss

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What is left when death leaves a void, and the way that we deal with the dead changes? Franca Buss examines the way that Enlightenment debates affected European tombstone art in the 18th century. In an art-historical close reading, she analyzes selected funerary ensembles from Central Europe and England and places them in a broader intellectual-historical context. Four strategies are identified relating to the absence of the deceased in the context of the creation of memory, and hope of the afterlife: allegorizing, sentimentalization, poeticizing and naturalization. The modern self-narrative of repressing death is questioned and it is demonstrated how art will pursue its own logic of development defying teleological generalizations.
Product details
Edition:
1
Number of Pages:
384
Release Date:
2025-09-01
Publication Date:
2025-09-01
Publisher:
Walter de Gruyter
Languages:
Original: German
ISBN10:
3689241901
ISBN13:
9783689241902
GPSR Manufacturer Reference:
[email protected]
Weight:
910 g
Height:
176 cm
Width:
240 cm
Thickness:
26 cm
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