MACABRE - An Illustrated Treatise on Death

Death is an inevitable fact of life. Throughout the centuries, humankind has sought to come to terms with this fatality, through art - medieval danse macabre, the Tibetan Book of the Dead, Renaissance paintings of dissected cadavers, gothic literature or paintings of the Last Judgment - or rituals - the Day of the Dead in Mexico, Egyptian mummies.

A work of sinister beauty and unprecedented ambition, Macabre reviews and analyzes perceptions of death in all cultures.

Each chapter is written by a specialist: museum curator, academic or journalist, richly illustrated with images and artifacts related to death. Skulls, danse macabre, statuettes, bookplates, photographs, the iconographic sources come from the Richard Harris collection and cover 2000 years of popular culture.