Lebenszeichen - Erinnerungsstiftung und Jenseitshoffnung in der Grabmalkultur des 18. Jahrhunderts
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| Verlag | De Gruyter |
| Auflage | 01.09.2025 |
| Seiten | 384 |
| Format | 17,0 x 2,0 x 25,0 cm |
| Gewicht | 961 g |
| Reihe | Ars et Scientia |
| ISBN-10 | 3689241901 |
| ISBN-13 | 9783689241902 |
| Bestell-Nr | 68924190A |
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.
