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Art of Suicide (Picturing History)
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| #1737745 in Books | Reaktion Books | 2004-01-02 | Original language:English | PDF # 1 | 9.00 x.90 x6.00l,1.53 | File type: PDF | 240 pages | ||13 of 13 people found the following review helpful.| Intense & Fascinating|By Amanda Chesworth|Reaktion books are exceptionally high quality both in their art reproductions and in the well researched content. Ron Brown, the author, is an academically-oriented suicidologist and although this can make for a difficult read, it was not a dry one and he did an excellent job of explaining his subject without pretension.
Th|From Publishers Weekly|More desperate pursuits are illustrated in The Art of Suicide, a scholarly look at the depiction of self-murder in painting and other visual forms, from Rembrandt's Lucretia to the tawdry engravings in Victorian England's Illustrated Polic
The Art of Suicide is a history of the visual representation of suicide from the ancient world to its decriminalization in the 20th century. After looking at instances of voluntary death in ancient Greece, Ron Brown discusses the contrast between the extraordinary absence of such events in early Christianity and the proliferation of images of biblical suicides in the late medieval era. He emphasizes how differing attitudes to suicide in the early modern world...
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