{"product_id":"9781861891174","title":"Grave Matters","description":"\u003cbr\u003e\"Cemeteries\", writes Mark C. Taylor, \"are where I go to commune with 'my' ghosts. The journey to the cemetery is always solitary even when I am with people who are closest to me. In the graveyard, the \u003ci\u003ewe\u003c\/i\u003e is dispersed and the \u003ci\u003eI\u003c\/i\u003e stripped bare.\" In \u003ci\u003eGrave Matters\u003c\/i\u003e, Taylor's ghosts become our own. His thoughtful, poignant essay interweaves personal narrative, historical analysis, cultural commentary and philosophical reflection.\u003cp\u003eDietrich Christian Lammerts's photographs show us the graves of the artists, architects, writers, philosophers and musicians who shaped Western culture; at once beautiful and disturbing, they suggest an alternative history of modernism and its precursors. \u003ci\u003eGrave Matters\u003c\/i\u003e raises difficult questions: What place do the modern greats have in the postmodern age? Who decided where and how they would be buried? Who wrote their epitaphs? What do their deaths, and their graves, tell us about their lives and suggest about our own? The words and images of \u003ci\u003eGrave Matters\u003c\/i\u003e inscribe the future that we all face, and to ponder this memento mori is to meet life anew.\u003c\/p\u003e","brand":"Reaktion Books, Limited","offers":[{"title":"Default Title","offer_id":47058206982384,"sku":"9781861891174","price":25.0,"currency_code":"USD","in_stock":false}],"thumbnail_url":"\/\/cdn.shopify.com\/s\/files\/1\/0737\/7593\/9824\/files\/9781861891174_p0.jpg?v=1763600810","url":"https:\/\/shop-qa.barnesandnoble.com\/products\/9781861891174","provider":"Barnes \u0026 Noble (DEV)","version":"1.0","type":"link"}