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Product Identifiers
PublisherReaktion Books, The Limited
ISBN-101861891059
ISBN-139781861891051
eBay Product ID (ePID)1977419
Product Key Features
Number of Pages256 Pages
LanguageEnglish
Publication NameArt of Suicide
SubjectGeneral, Suicide
Publication Year2004
TypeTextbook
Subject AreaArt, Psychology
AuthorRon Brown
SeriesPicturing History Ser.
FormatHardcover
Dimensions
Item Height0.9 in
Item Weight24.3 Oz
Item Length9.4 in
Item Width6.5 in
Additional Product Features
Intended AudienceScholarly & Professional
IllustratedYes
Dewey Decimal704.9494
Table Of ContentIntroduction 1. Representing Voluntary Death in Classical Antiquity 2. Self-killing from Late Antiquity to the Renaissance 3. Conflict and Change in Early Modern Europe 4. An English Dance of Death? 5. Preserving Life and Punishing Death 6. The Century of Destruction Postscript References Select Bibliography Acknowledgements Photographic Acknowledgements Index
SynopsisThe 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 slowly merged, and pays particular attention to the one-time chasm between so-called heroic suicide and self-destruction as a "crying crime". Brown tracks the changes surrounding the perception of suicide into the pivotal Romantic era, with its notions of the "man of feeling", ready to hurl himself into the abyss over a woman or an unfinishable poem. After the First World War, the meaning of death and attitudes towards suicide changed radically, and in time this led to its decriminalization. The 20th century in fact witnessed a growing ambivalence towards suicidal acts, which today are widely regarded either as expressions of a death-wish or as cries for help. Brown concludes with Warhol's picture of Marilyn Monroe and the videos taken by the notorious Dr Kevorkian., 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 slowly merged, and pays particular attention to the one-time chasm between so-called heroic suicide and self-destruction as a "crying crime." Brown tracks the changes surrounding the perception of suicide into the pivotal Romantic era, with its notions of the "man of feeling," ready to hurl himself into the abyss over a woman or an unfinishable poem. After the First World War, the meaning of death and attitudes towards suicide changed radically, and in time this led to its decriminalization. The 20th century in fact witnessed a growing ambivalence towards suicidal acts, which today are widely regarded either as expressions of a death-wish or as cries for help. Brown concludes with Warhol's picture of Marilyn Monroe and the videos taken by the notorious Dr Kevorkian., A history of the representation of suicide from the ancient world to its decriminalization in the twentieth century.
