Images of the Corpse

Images of the Corpse
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Publisher : Popular Press
Total Pages : 268
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ISBN-10 : 0299197948
ISBN-13 : 9780299197940
Rating : 4/5 (940 Downloads)

Book Synopsis Images of the Corpse by : Elizabeth Klaver

Download or read book Images of the Corpse written by Elizabeth Klaver and published by Popular Press. This book was released on 2004 with total page 268 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: This compelling book brings together physicians, artists, and scholars of film, literature, philosophy, art, and politics to discuss the representation of the corpse in Western culture. Spanning a timeline from the Renaissance to the present, these essays introduce readers to a modern autopsy, a public execution and dissection in seventeenth-century England, the genre of postmortem photography, the corpse as artist's model, images of dead women in such popular films as Copycat and The Silence of the Lambs, and post-mortem scenes in the works of Flaubert, Balzac, Andres Serrano, and others.


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