{"product_id":"buss-franca-lebenszeichen-9783689241902","title":"Lebenszeichen","description":"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.","brand":"Walter de Gruyter","offers":[{"title":"Default Title","offer_id":53737313239382,"sku":null,"price":0.0,"currency_code":"EUR","in_stock":false}],"url":"https:\/\/www.momoxbooks.com\/products\/buss-franca-lebenszeichen-9783689241902","provider":"momoxbooks","version":"1.0","type":"link"}