Death's Showcase
Subtitle: The Power of Image in Contemporary Democracy
Contributors: Ruvik Danieli (Translator)
Publisher: The MIT Press
Published: June 1, 2001
Language: eng
Format: Hardcover
Number of pages: 314
ISBN-13: 9780262011822
Subjects: Cultural studies; Death & Dying; Iconography, subjects depicted in art; Violence in society; Photography As An Art; Special Subjects In Art; Literary Collections; Art & Art Instruction; Literature: Classics; Israel; History - General; Subjects & Themes - General; Art / Fine Arts; Letters; 20th century; Artists and museums; Arts, Israeli; Death in art; Photography, Artistic
Description: "This is a book about the public display of death in contemporary culture. It consists of a series of essays on specific cases in which death is displayed in museums and in photography. The essays focus mainly on representations of violence and death in events in recent Israeli history, including the assassination of Yitzhak Rabin and the Palestinian Intifada, and on the visual presence of traumatic events in Israeli culture throughout the twentieth century.

They show how images of these events both shape and aestheticize the viewer's experience of death."--BOOK JACKET.