Life at the End of Life - Finding Words Beyond Words

Life at the End of Life explores how art can provide a means for rendering otherwise abstract, personal and spiritual experiences vividly concrete and communicable, even as they remain open-ended and transcendent. Brennan shows how artistic expression can offer valuable aesthetic and metaphysical avenues for understanding and for making meaning.

About the author

Marcia Brennan is professor of art history and religion at Rice University.

Summary

Life at the End of Life explores how art can provide a means for rendering otherwise abstract, personal and spiritual experiences vividly concrete and communicable, even as they remain open-ended and transcendent. Brennan shows how artistic expression can offer valuable aesthetic and metaphysical avenues for understanding and for making meaning.

Product details

• Authors: Marcia Brennan, Marcia (Rice University Brennan, Brennan Marcia
• Publisher: Ingram Publishers Services
• Languages: English
• Product format: Paperback / Softback
• Released: 30.04.2017
• EAN: 9781783206971
• ISBN: 978-1-78320-697-1
• Dimensions: 178 mm x 229 mm x 13 mm
• Weight: 408 g
• Subjects: Humanities, art, music > Art > Miscellaneous; SOCIAL SCIENCE / Death & Dying, ART / History / General, History of art / art & design styles, History of Art, Sociology: death and dying, Sociology: Death & Dying