A visual history of mourning and of the culture surrounding the commemoration of death. Focusing on the nineteenth and early twentieth centuries, and travelling from Victorian England across to the US, the book is a visual tour through this curious world, charting the often peculiar and at times macabre ways of how the living memorialise the dead.
A visual history of mourning and of the culture surrounding the commemoration of death. Focusing on the nineteenth and early twentieth centuries, and travelling from Victorian England across to the US, the book is a visual tour through this curious world, charting the often peculiar and at times macabre ways of how the living memorialise the dead.
US-based Paul Gambino has been an avid collector of the bizarre for over 20 years with an extensive collection of Victorian memorial photographs, antique funeria, mug shots, and vintage religious items (including a life-sized St. Sebastian and Virgin Mary salvaged from a 19th-century church in Pennsylvania).
Inhaltsangabe
Introduction I .THRONES & BONES The Grief that Governs I I . In the SHADOW of the SCYTHE Life and Death in the Victorian Era I I I . MOURNING COUTURE Dying’s Influence over Fashion I V. BRUSHES with MORTALITY Victorian Art in the Shadow of Death V. CITY of the DEAD Family Plots to the Necropolis VI . CROSSING OVER Communicating with the Great Beyond VII. The DARK ARTS A Dance with Death in Literature and Culture V I I I . A MEMENTO MORI Keepsakes of the Dead IX. The HOUSE OF SHADOWS From Home to Funeral Home X. SHOOTING the DEAD A Final Focus XI . TOIL and TRAGEDY Working Yourself to Death X I I. TWIN SHADOWS The Butcher and the Bunco Artist X I I I . The QUEEN’S LAST BREATH A Monarch’s Farewell Endnotes Picture Credits Index Acknowledgements About the Author
Introduction I .THRONES & BONES The Grief that Governs I I . In the SHADOW of the SCYTHE Life and Death in the Victorian Era I I I . MOURNING COUTURE Dying’s Influence over Fashion I V. BRUSHES with MORTALITY Victorian Art in the Shadow of Death V. CITY of the DEAD Family Plots to the Necropolis VI . CROSSING OVER Communicating with the Great Beyond VII. The DARK ARTS A Dance with Death in Literature and Culture V I I I . A MEMENTO MORI Keepsakes of the Dead IX. The HOUSE OF SHADOWS From Home to Funeral Home X. SHOOTING the DEAD A Final Focus XI . TOIL and TRAGEDY Working Yourself to Death X I I. TWIN SHADOWS The Butcher and the Bunco Artist X I I I . The QUEEN’S LAST BREATH A Monarch’s Farewell Endnotes Picture Credits Index Acknowledgements About the Author
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