The Composer Embalmed: Relic Culture from Piety to Kitsch Poetry_Gift_Guide Intensely alive

Intensely alive

”—JILLIAN CANTOR

the American artist James Bidgood revolutionized photography in the 1960s

Ruth Handler

The Composer Embalmed: Relic Culture from Piety to Kitsch Poetry_Gift_Guide Intensely aliveThe first granular study of nineteenth century composer devotiona network of devotees who preserved tangible traces of composers through relics, rituals, pilgrimage, exhumation, and embalming. During the nineteenth century, music institutions promoted artworks they deemed timeless and made composers into figureheads of a lasting Western canon. Alongside this institutional face of the canon was a more intimate impulse to preserve, touch, and embrace