Death themes in the visual arts: Resources and research opportunities for death educators

Abstract

The purposes of this study are to make death educators more aware of the visual arts as vehicles for expression of thanatological ideas, and to introduce them to various means of approaching works of art and related scholarship.

The core of the project is a 154-item bibliography, painstakingly gathered from all basic sources of information. Most items are annotated. Suggestions for study of art works themselves, and for research across the disciplines of art and thanatology, are keyed to items in the bibliography.