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art through time - a global view
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    • Series Overview
    • 1 / Converging Cultures
    • 2 / Dreams and Visions
    • 3 / History and Memory
    • 4 / Ceremony and Society
    • 5 / Cosmology and Belief
    • 6 / Death
    • 7 / Domestic Life
    • 8 / Writing
    • 9 / Portraits
    • 10 / The Natural World
    • 11 / The Urban Experience
    • 12 / Conflict and Resistance
    • 13 / The Body

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6 / Death

La Calavera de la Catrina My Love Sings When the Flower is Near (The Philosopher and the Woman) Can art uncover a lighter side of death? Kha and His Wife Meryt Before Osiris (detail) from the Book of the Dead A page from the Ars Moriendi How has art been used as a guide to death and dying? Realm of Hungry Ghosts (from The Six Realms of Rebirth) Triumph of Death What can art about death tell us about life? Twin Figures (Ère Ìbejì) Ancestral Effigy (Rambaramp) How can art make the absent present? Eagle Coffin Coffin of Henettawy What do funerary arts reveal about cultural beliefs and values?

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  1. 1/ Converging Cultures
  2. 2/ Dreams and Visions
  3. 3/ History and Memory
  4. 4/ Ceremony and Society
  5. 5/ Cosmology and Belief
  6. 6/ Death
  7. 7/ Domestic Life
  8. 8/ Writing
  9. 9/ Portraits
  10. 10/ The Natural World
  11. 11/ The Urban Experience
  12. 12/ Conflict and Resistance
  13. 13/ The Body
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