Beyond the Veil Hardback Book
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Product Description
Beyond the Veil is a visual tour through the curious history of how we deal with death – the grief and mourning, the funerals, symbols and ceremonies.
From Victorian England across to the US, learn about the often peculiar and at times macabre ways of how the living memorialise the dead.
Humans have always had ways of marking death, but in Victorian England death became a morbid obsession that went global – death was as much ‘celebrated’ as it was a source of fear and sadness.
This book explores:
• The influence of Queen Victoria’s personal mourning on fashion and social custom.
• The rise of Victorian cemeteries and funerary architecture.
• The art of memento mori and post-mortem photography.
• The emergence of spiritualism, seances and afterlife communication.
• The fascination with gothic literature, symbolism and the romanticisation of death.
Beautifully illustrated throughout with archival photography, artworks and design, Beyond the Veil is a must-have for lovers of history, art and the macabre. It invites readers to step into the shadows of the past and discover how Victorian mourning shaped our modern relationship with grief and remembrance.
Author: Paul Gambino
Dimensions: W:17.75 x D:2.49 x H:23.01 cm
Weight: 700g
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