Paul Gambino

Beyond the Veil

The Victorian Obsession With Mourning and Death

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Produktbeschreibung

A visual history of mourning and of the culture surrounding the commemoration of death. Focusing on the nineteenth and early twentieth centuries, and travelling from Victorian England across to the US, the book is a visual tour through this curious world, charting the often peculiar and at times macabre ways of how the living memorialise the dead.

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Produktdetails

• Verlag: Quarto Publishing PLC
• Seitenzahl: 224
• Erscheinungstermin: 18. September 2025
• Englisch
• Abmessung: 224mm x 171mm
• Gewicht: 750g
• ISBN-13: 9781836004226
• ISBN-10: 1836004222
• Artikelnr.: 72700263

Autorenporträt

US-based Paul Gambino has been an avid collector of the bizarre for over 20 years with an extensive collection of Victorian memorial photographs, antique funeria, mug shots, and vintage religious items (including a life-sized St. Sebastian and Virgin Mary salvaged from a 19th-century church in Pennsylvania).

Inhaltsangabe

Intro
Chapter 1: Queen of Death
To focus on Queen Victoria and her enormous influence, in both life and
death
2: The Art of Mourning
How the obsession of death was embraced by fashion and the arts of the
period
3: City of the Dead
From family plots to the Necropolis, how death and burial took physical
form.
4: Spiritualism and Seances
How the living contacted the departed, and the associated supernatrual and
macabre culture
5: Death in Black and White
How death pervaded the literarture of the period, creating a dark and
atmospheric literary landscape
6: Memento Mori
Keepsakes of the dead, in their many and varied (and usually weird) forms
7: Daguerretypes of the Dead
The peculiar world of postmortem photography