Reading List

ART

  • Understanding Installation Art ~ Mark Rosenthal
  • Installation Art ~ Claire Bishop
  • Installation Art in the New Millennium ~ Nicolas De Oliveira
  • On Edge: Performance at the End of the Twentieth Century ~ C. Carr
  • Critique Handbook ~ Kendall Buster
  • Blood: Art, Power, Politics, and Pathology ~ James M. Bradburne

    • ANATOMY/MEDICAL

  • Encyclopaedia Anatomica
  • Atlas of Human Anatomy and Sx Le Minor ~ Dr. Jean Marie
  • Mutter Museum: Historic Medical Photographs
  • Dissection: Photographs of a Rite of Passage in American Medicine 1880-1930 ~ John Harley Warner
  • Colour Atlas of Anatomical Pathology
  • Another Day in the Frontal Lobe ~ Katrina Firlik

    • DEATH

  • Death to Dust: What Happens to Dead Bodies? ~ Kenneth Iserson
  • The Body Emblazoned: Dissection and the Human Body in Renaissance Culture ~ Jonathan Sawday
  • Muerte! Death in Mexican Popular Culture ~ Harvey Bennett Stafford
  • Looking at Death ~ Barbara Norfleet
  • Inquisition: A Bilingual Guide to the Exhibition of Torture Instruments ~ Robert Held

    • CRIME

  • Simpson's Forensic Medicine
  • Color Atlas of Forensic Pathology ~ Jay Dix
  • Post-Mortem Procedures ~ Austin Gresham
  • Postmortem: Establishing the Cause of Death ~ Koehler and Wecht
  • A Fly for the Prosecution: How Insect Evidence Helps Solve Crimes ~ M. Lee Goff
  • Death Investigations ~ Brad Randall
  • Death Scenes: A Homicide Detective's Scrapbook ~ Katherine Dunn
  • Deadly Intent: Crime and Punishment Photographs from the Burns Archive ~ Stanley Burns
  • Illustrated True Crime: A Photographic Record ~ Colin Wilson
  • Shots in the Dark: True Crime Pictures ~ Gail Buckland

    • DEATH [ History]

  • The History of Death: Burial Customs and Funeral Rites, From the Ancient World to Modern Times ~ Michael Kerrigan
  • Encyclopedia of Death and the Human Experience ~ Clinton Bryant

    • DEATH [Victorian Mourning]

  • The Victorian Celebration of Death ~ James Stevens Curl
  • Death, Heaven and the Victorians ~ John Morley
  • Horse Drawn Funeral Vehicles ~ Gattinoni Giles Deacon Vagrant
  • Collector's Encyclopedia of Hairwork Jewelry ~ Jeanenne Bell
  • Fashionable Mourning Jewelry, Clothing & Customs ~ Mary Brett
  • Mourning Art and Jewelry ~ Maureen DeLorme
  • Memento Mori: Mourning Rings, Memorial Miniatures, and Hair Devices ~ John Hill Morgan
  • Forget Me Not ~ Geoffrey Batchen
  • Postmortem Collectible ~ C.L. Miller
  • A History of the Death Mask ~ Cleo Bell Hendricks
  • Mourning Dress: A Costume and Social History ~Lou Taylor

    • DEATH [Victorian Post-Mortem Photography]

  • Secure the Shadow: Death and Photography
  • Sleeping Beauty: Memorial Photography in America ~ Stanley Burns

    • DEATH [Funeral and Grieving]

  • Facing Death: Images, Insights, and Interventions ~ Sandra L. Bertman
  • Dealing Creatively With Death ~ Earnest Morgan