‘Death: A Graveside Companion’ offers an outlet for your morbid curiosity
New book explores the how humans have tried to understand death through the ages
Death: A Graveside Companion
Joanna Ebenstein (ed.)
Thames & Hudson, $40
Joanna Ebenstein (ed.)
Thames & Hudson, $40
Death: A Graveside Companion makes for an unusual coffee-table book, with its coppery etched Grim Reaper on the cover. Yet you may be surprised by how much fun it is to pore through the book’s lavish artwork of skulls, cadavers and fanciful imaginings of the afterlife.
BEAUTY AND DECAY Vanitas art, which explores the vanity of life and inevitability of death, became popular in the 16th and 17th centuries. Adriaen van Utrecht’s 1642 Vanitas Still Life With Flowers and Skull is shown.
A. VAN UTRECHT, ANDREAGROSSMANN/WIKIMEDIA COMMONS
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