Six feet under : autopsy of our relation to the dead = Autopsie unseres Umgangs mit Toten / Kunstmuseum Bern.

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Six feet under : autopsy of our relation to the dead = Autopsie unseres Umgangs mit Toten / Kunstmuseum Bern.

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222 pages : illustrations (chiefly color) ; 22 x 28 cm

Notes:
Published on the occasion of the exhibition of the same name, held at Kunstmuseum Bern, Switzerland, Nov. 2, 2006-Jan. 21, 2007.
Includes bibliographical references and index.
Die Wiederkehr der Toten nach der Moderne = The return of the dead after the modern age / Thomas Macho -- "Doppelt tot" : die Toten und ihre Bilder = 'Doubly dead' : the dead and their images / Helga Lutz -- Der Sterblichkeit des Schönen = The mortality of beauty / Elisabeth Bronfen -- Leichen, Totenköpfe und Skelette = Corpses, skulls and skeletons / Bernhard Fibicher -- Särge, Gräber und Tränen = Bodies, burials and bereavement / Bernhard Fibicher -- Die letzte Ehre kommt zuerst : Ghanaische Bestattungsrituale und figürliche Särge = Last respects, first honoured : Ghanaian burial rituals and figural coffins / Regula Tschumi -- Hommagen : Geliebte und verehrte Tote = Homage : the beloved and revered dead / Matthias Frehner -- Der Tod des Künstlers = The artist's death / Susanne Friedli -- Tod und Lifestyle = Death and lifestyle / Susanne Friedli -- Nachleben = Afterlife / Berhnard Fibicher -- Totentanz : Kopien von Wilhelm Stettler nach dem Totentanz von Niklaus Manuel = Dance of death : copies by Wilhelm Stettler of Niklaus Manuel's Dance of death / Hans Christoph von Tavel -- Kurzbiographien und Bibliographen = Short artists' biographies and bibliographies / Andreas Rüfenacht.
Parallel text in English and German.

ISBN:

9783866780194 (cloth)
3866780192 (cloth)

Subject:

Death in art Exhibitions.
Dead in art Exhibitions.
Mort dans l'art Expositions.
Morts dans l'art Expositions.
Dead in art
Death in art

Form/genre:

Exhibition catalogs

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Kunstmuseum Bern.

Autopsie unseres Umgangs mit Tote

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Location: Library main 251644
Call No.: BIB 181205
Status: Available

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