Ariès, Philippe <br/><br/>
Images of man and death 
/ Philippe Ariès ; translated by Janet Lloyd. 
 - Cambridge, MA;   London :  Harvard University Press,  [1985]. 
 - 271 pages ;  illustrations ;  31 cm. 
<br/><br/> Translation of: Images de l'homme devant la mort. 
<br/><br/>Includes bibliographical references (p. 269-270). 
<br/><br/>Introduction: Death and the icon. 1 The cemetery and the church. 2 Tombs. 3 From the home to the grave. 4 The beyond. 5 Omnia vanitas. 6 The return of the cemetery. 7 The death of others. 8 What of today? 
<br/><br/> 'Conceived as an "imaginary film," this book is a visual presentation of how individuals and society have reshaped their images of death to meet the prevailing beliefs and social realities of dying...Through Ari�s's eye we come to interpret the real and symbolic items that have expressed our ambiguity in confronting the end of life: the epitaph, the deathbed scene, the recumbent statue that may represent the living person or the corpse, a figure in prayer. He examines ceremonies and rituals; visions of purgatory, life after death, and reincarnation; romantic yerning and the temptation of self-annihilation.' 
<br/><br/> Hardcover 
<br/><br/><label>ISBN: </label>0674444108 
<br/><br/><label>LCCN: </label>85-768 
<br/><br/><label>Subjects--Topical Terms: </label><br/>Death<br/>Death in art<br/>Sepulchral monuments<br/>Christian art and symbolism<br/>Art--Themes, motives<br/>Civilization, Western
<br/><br/><label>LC Class. No.: </label>N8217.D5 A713 1985