Death and Mortality - Vault Editions - Vault Editions Image Archives

Death & Mortality: An Image Archive for Artists & Designers by Vault Editions and Kale James brings together a curated selection of historical imagery centred on death. This paperback volume forms part of the Vault Editions Image Archives series.

Key details

• Authors: Vault Editions and Kale James
• Series: Vault Editions Image Archives
• Format: Paperback
• Extent: 82 pages
• Publisher: Vault Editions
• ISBN: 9781925968156

Synopsis

Designed as a visual reference for artists and designers, this pictorial archive presents 166 restored etchings and engravings from the 17th and 18th centuries. The selection explores mortality through recurring symbols and funerary imagery, including personifications of death, skeletons and ghosts, memento mori motifs, corpses, death masks, and scenes associated with The Dance of Death.

Each illustration is reproduced with attention to detail, and the book includes a unique download link providing access to 166 high-resolution, 300-DPI images. A focused resource for creative work that draws on macabre and symbolic historical material.

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