I. Ars Moriendi: Illuminations on ‘The Good Death’ from the Arts and Humanities

Click to increase image sizeClick to decrease image size Additional informationNotes on contributorsSandra BertmanSandra Bertman, PhD, is Professor of Humanities in Medicine at the University of Massachusetts Medical Center.NotesComment of Dr. Joan K. Harrold. Conference Proceedings Co-Editor. Unless otherwise noted, those images can be found in Bertman, S. (1991). Facing Death: Images, Insights and Interventions. Washington, D.C.: Taylor and Francis.See Death of Buddha (1086) hanging scroll painting of silk. Kongobu-Ji, Koya-san, Wakayama.See painting of Rembrandt. Jacob Blessing Sons of Joseph (1656). Staaliche Kunstasammlungen Kassel, Gemaldegalerie Alte Meister.See especially the photographs of Van Dr Zee, James (1978). The Harlem Book of the Dead. New York: Dobbs Ferry, Morgan & Morgan.These photographs are from the exhibition Hospice: A Photographic Inquiry organized by the Corcoran Gallery of Art at the time of this meeting. Photographs by Jim Goldberg, Nan Goldin, Sally Mann, Jack Radcliffe, and Kathy Vargus. Catalogue edited by Dena Andre, Philip Brookman, and Jane Livingston, published by Bulfinch Press/Little, Brown and Co.See Layton’s drawings and her accompanying comments in Lambert, Don (1995). The Life and Art of Elizabeth ‘Grandma’ Layton. 606 West 6th, Topeka, Kansas.