Faces of death
Volume in which historians working in an international research group explore visual representations of death. The use of images of death is historicised by exploring artistic representations of death and their relation to changing social attitudes in the Middle Ages, nineteenth and twentieth century. Contents:
Faces of death: welcome to the desert of the real
La douleur est psysique / Klaartje Schrijvers : Death and the picture: representation of war criminals and construction of a divided memory about World War II in Hungary / Andrea Petö : Photographical representation of death in historiography: examples from the German occupation of Norway : 'Death shall have no dominion': Dutch flood disasters in the press / José de Kruif : Photography as a source: the changing representation of the image of mafia women by the Italian press / Alice De Toni : The faces of Kartini and Anne Frank: the death of the author in Dutch history / Berteke Waaldijk.
Faces of death: an artistic representation
The dramatisation of death in the second half of the 19th century: the Paris morgue and anatomy painting / Mireia Ferrer Álvarez : Images of the dead in the Middle Ages: the capitals of the Palazzo Ducale in Venice / Claudia Bertazzo : Facing death on the sea: ex-voto paintings of Northern Adriatic sailing ships in the 19th centruy / Tea Mayhew. With short abstracts in English and the language of the author.
- Creator
- Petö, Andrea > (ed., introd.)
- Schrijvers, Klaartje > (ed., introd.)