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Icons in Ash : Human Portraits by Heide Hatry (2017, Hardcover)

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Product Identifiers

PublisherBarrytown/Station Hill Press

ISBN-101581771614

ISBN-139781581771619

eBay Product ID (ePID)234350910

Product Key Features

Book TitleIcons in Ash : Human Portraits

Number of Pages232 Pages

LanguageEnglish

Publication Year2017

TopicIndividual Artists / Essays, Death & Dying, Subjects & Themes / Portraits, Death, Grief, Bereavement, Subjects & Themes / General

IllustratorYes

GenreArt, Social Science, Self-Help

AuthorHeide Hatry

FormatHardcover

Dimensions

Item Height1.6 in

Item Weight39 Oz

Item Length9.5 in

Item Width7.5 in

Additional Product Features

Intended AudienceTrade

LCCN2016-048489

Dewey Edition23

Grade FromCollege Freshman

Grade ToCollege Graduate Student

Dewey Decimal393

SynopsisThe art of the human image arose millennia ago as a way beyond impermanence and, especially, to keep the dead among us. The pictorial object - the icon - often carried a charge as ritual or ceremonial artifact and, indeed, as a thing with a certain power. The artist Heide Hatry has extended this tradition by creating realistic portraits made out of the actual ashes of the departed person portrayed. Are the results reminiscent of ancient sacred and secular traditions and their complex, even mysterious function to, say, calm, enrich or transform our experience? Icons in Ash includes twenty of Hatry's portraits and twenty-seven contemporary writers who explore this phenomenon in original and engaging meditations on death, the dead body, art, relics, psychology, philosophy, religion, mourning, evolution, transformation, and immortality. Contributors include, among others, Hans Belting, Mark Dery, Eleanor Heartney, Siri Hustvedt, Jonas Mekas, Rick Moody, Mark Pachter, Steven Pinker, Wolf Singer, Luisa Valenzuela, and Peter Weibel. Normal0falsefalsefalseEN-USJAX-NONE

LC Classification NumberGT3150.I29 2017