Death book III - drawing one last breath

Death Book III - Drawing One Last Breathe \n \nThe third edition of DEATH BOOK brings together contemporary representations of death, in the form of drawings, illustrations and paintings. \n \nBefore the invention of photography, we used illustrations, paintings, and, most importantly, real corpses to view decaying flesh. Many visual expressions of death were used to moralize or romanticize death. Vanitas paintings were made to remind us that life is only temporary and that all mortal possessions are in vain. Watercolors in the Japanese Kusôzu tradition, which depict the nine stages of bodily decomposition from the first moment of death to the final stages, were made to remind us not to give in to bodily desires. Romantic war paintings asked the viewer to fight for the cause. \n \nFor the third edition of DEATH BOOK, you will find various signs and symbols related to death, such as skulls, violence, accidents, spirits, corpses, sexual acts and references to religion and Christ. The included works remind us of our status as alive, sometimes in a funny, exciting or serious way. \n \nA faithful depiction of death and the pain associated with it is impossible, but the works included attempt to communicate the agony, anguish, grave sadness, and, at times, humor associated with death. \n \nDEATH BOOK lll is edited by PZtoday, who designed the book as a Bible/address book. With an introduction by Pernilla Ellens and Lauren Raaijmakers and drawings, paintings and illustrations by Alicia Gibson, Christina Quarles, Jean-Michel Basquiat, Ellen Cantor, Franko B, Hermann Nitsch, Ion Birch, Keith Boadwee, Lin Ke, Mike Diana, Namio Harukawa, Oliver Eales, Patrick Wray, PZtoday, Qiu Xiaofei, Richard Hawkins, Sutapa Biswas, Toshio Saeki, Urs Lüthi, Vittorio Scarpati, Will Henry, Julien Ceccaldi and many more.