{"product_id":"lebenszeichen","title":"Lebenszeichen","description":"\u003cp\u003eWhat is left when death leaves a void, and the way that we deal with the dead changes? Franca Buss examines the way that Enlightenment debates affected European tombstone art in the 18\u003csup\u003eth\u003c\/sup\u003e century. In an art-historical \u003cem\u003eclose reading\u003c\/em\u003e, she analyzes selected funerary ensembles from Central Europe and England and places them in a broader intellectual-historical context. Four strategies are identified relating to the absence of the deceased in the context of the creation of memory, and hope of the afterlife: allegorizing, sentimentalization, poeticizing and naturalization. The modern self-narrative of repressing death is questioned and it is demonstrated how art will pursue its own logic of development defying teleological generalizations. \u003c\/p\u003e","brand":"De Gruyter","offers":[{"title":"Default Product","offer_id":57260428558680,"sku":"9783689241902","price":87.99,"currency_code":"EUR","in_stock":true}],"url":"https:\/\/agendabookshop.com\/products\/lebenszeichen","provider":"Agenda Bookshop","version":"1.0","type":"link"}