Title The art of suicide / Ron M. Brown.

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London : Reaktion Books, 2001.

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Description	1 online resource (253 pages) : illustrations (some color).
	data file rda
Series	Picturing history
	Picturing history.
Bibliography	Includes bibliographical references (pages 241-242) and index.
Contents	Representing voluntary death in classical antiquity -- Self-killing from late antiquity to the renaissance -- Conflict and change in early modern Europe -- An English dance of death? -- Preserving life and punishing death -- The century of destruction.
Summary	This is a history of the representation of suicide from the ancient world to the 20th century. After looking at instances of death in ancient Greece, the author discusses the contrast between the absence of such figures in early Christianity and images of biblical suicides in the medieval era.
Note	Print version record.
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Reproduction	Electronic reproduction. [S.l.] : HathiTrust Digital Library, 2010. MiAaHDL
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Local Note	EBSCOhost Art and Architecture Complete
Subject	Suicide in art.
	Art -- History.
	ART -- Subjects & Themes -- General.
	Art. (OCoLC)fst00815177
	Suicide in art. (OCoLC)fst01137614
	Zelfmoord.
	Afbeeldingen (algemeen)
	Sterben.
	Ikonographie.
	Tod.
Genre/Form	History. (OCoLC)fst01411628
Other Form:	Print version: Brown, Ron M. Art of suicide. London : Reaktion Books, 2001 1861891059 (OCoLC)47675751
ISBN	9781861896865 (electronic book)
	1861896867 (electronic book)
	1861891059
	9781861891051

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