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- ISBN 9781783206971
- Weight: 408g
- Dimensions: 178 x 229mm
- Publication Date: 16 Jan 2017
- Publisher: Intellect
- Publication City/Country: GB
- Product Form: Paperback
- Language: English
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Artist and scholar Marcia Brennan serves as Artist in Residence at the M. D. Anderson Cancer Center in Houston, and the experience of seeing, close-up, the transitional states and transformational visions involved in the approaching end of life raised countless questions about the intersection of life, death and art.
Those questions are at the heart of this unique book. Bridging disparate fields, including art history, medical humanities, and religious studies, Life at the End of Life explores the ways in which art can provide a means for rendering otherwise abstract, deeply personal and spiritual experiences vividly concrete and communicable, even as they remain open-ended and transcendent. In the face of death, suffering and uncertainty, Brennan shows how artistic expression can offer valuable aesthetic and metaphysical avenues for understanding and for making meaning.
Marcia Brennan is professor of art history and religion at Rice University.
