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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

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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.