Franca Buss: Lebenszeichen, Gebunden
Lebenszeichen
- Erinnerungsstiftung und Jenseitshoffnung in der Grabmalkultur des 18. Jahrhunderts
- Publisher:
- Walter de Gruyter, 09/2025
- Binding:
- Gebunden
- Language:
- Deutsch
- ISBN-13:
- 9783689241902
- Item number:
- 12217168
- Volume:
- 384 Pages
- other:
- 80 col. illustrations
- Release date:
- 1.9.2025
Blurb
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 18^th^ 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.
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