Constructions of Death, Mourning, and Memory Conference, October 27-29, 2006: Proceedings
ISBN 0-9785461-0-5, US$35.00 (241 pp., 115 b/w illusts.).
Papers presented by participants of the Constructions of Death, Mourning, and Memory Conference that took place in October 27-29, 2006 at the Woodcliff Lake Hilton in Woodcliff Lake, New Jersey, patronized by our organization. Over 70 full-text papers are included, dealing with the subject of death in art, from the ancient to the modern era. Sessions include:
Representations of Death in Ancient and Medieval Art; Constructions/ Destructions in Contemporary Art, Architecture, and Film; The Seventh Act of Mercy; Mourning and Memorialization in Contemporary American Culture; Heroic Death: Models and Counter-Models; Photographs of a Being Before: Now; Memory be Damned: The Obliteration of Monuments in Rome from Antiquity to the Modern Era; Artists Speaking about Death in Their Art; Macabre Relics: Medieval, Renaissance, Modern; Funeral Symbolism on Christian Tombstones and Monuments; Representations of Death in Nineteenth Century Art; The Culture of Death: and Mourning in the Eighteenth and Nineteenth Centuries; Life and Death: Celebrating the Deceased in Early Modern Europe, ca. 1300-1600; Death and Mourning in American Art; Images of Loss, Commemoration, and Protection in Early Modern Europe; Capturing the Cadaver: Photographs of the Dead; Casualties of War; Death, The Risen Christ, and the Virgin in Art: History and Iconography; Commemorating Victims and Heroes: Terrorism and War Memorials; Strategies of Commemoration: Women as Patrons and Subjects of Eighteenth- and Early Nineteenth-Century Funerary Memorials; Facing the Beyond: Self Fashioning in the Face of Death.
Constructions of Death, Mourning, and Memory Conference, October 27-29, 2006: Abstracts US$ 16.00.
Abstracts of the papers presented at the Constructions of Death, Mourning, and Memory Conference that took place in October 27-29, 2006 at the Woodcliff Lake Hilton in Woodcliff Lake, New Jersey, patronized by our organization. Over 100 abstracts are included, dealing with the subject of death in art, from the ancient to the modern era. Sessions include:
Representations of Death in Ancient and Medieval Art; Constructions/ Destructions in Contemporary Art, Architecture, and Film; The Seventh Act of Mercy; Mourning and Memorialization in Contemporary American Culture; Heroic Death: Models and Counter-Models; Photographs of a Being Before: Now; Memory be Damned: The Obliteration of Monuments in Rome from Antiquity to the Modern Era; Artists Speaking about Death in their Art; Macabre Relics: Medieval, Renaissance, Modern; Dying in the Midst of Laboring and other Representations in Art Concerning the Death of the Industrial Worker; Funeral Symbolism on Christian Tombstones and Monuments; Representations of Death in Nineteenth Century Art; The Culture of Death and Mourning in the Eighteenth and Nineteenth Centuries; Life after Death: Celebrating the Deceased in Early Modern Europe, ca. 1300-1600; Death and Mourning in American Art; Images of Loss, Commemoration and Protection in Early Modern Europe; Capturing the Cadaver: Photographs of the Dead; Casualties of War; Death, The Risen Christ, and the Virgin in Art: History and Iconography; Commemorating Victims and Heroes: Terrorism and War Memorials; Strategies of Commemoration: Women as Patrons and Subjects of Eighteenth- and early Nineteenth Century Funerary Memorials; Facing the Beyond: Self-Fashioning in the Face of Death.