Restorative Art Klicker pages 1-44 Flashcards
Require a minimum effort, skill and time to complete.
Minor Restorations
Require a long period of time, are extensive, require advanced technical skill, and written consent from the family in order to perform.
Major Restorations
- Some directors believe that too much will discourage the family from viewing- families may choose casket or vault of lesser value because of not viewing.
- Some funeral directors believe that whatever happens with the family’s buying decision happens.
- Many will not charge extra- do not want to deny families of the comfort of seeing their deceased loved one with a natural and peaceful appearance.
How to charge?
- How much is your time worth?
- How much of your time do you want to donate as an act of charity?
Listen to Financial Advisors, Staff, and Your Heart About Pricing
Restorative arts has it’s roots here.
- Religious beliefs- in order to proceed to the hereafter, the body must remain intact.
- Equivalent to modern day restorative art was- muffify the body, replacing desiccated eyeballs with stones, wiring fingernails back on, and packing sunken areas with straw.
- No other culture has practiced the complicated procedures this culture did.
Ancient Egyptians
- Washing the body
- Styling the hair
- Closing the eyes
- Typing a cloth around the head and chin to keep the mouth closed.
Forerunners of Restorative Art Today
- Began in 1912
- Known as Demi-surgery
- Joseph Crandall was the founder
Restorative Arts in the United States
The art of building or creating parts of he body which had been destroyed by accident, disease, decomposition, or discoloration, and making the body perfectly natural and lifelike.
Demi-Surgery
(Johnson and Williams Definition)
The founder of restorative art.
- Researched techniques
- Developed special waxes and cosmetics.
- Educated undertakers through classes and published articles
Joseph Crandall
- Embalming schools of the time started to teach it as part of its curriculum.
- Embalming fluid companies were writing and lecturing about the process
Recognition of Restorative Art as Part of the Embalming Process
New and improved techniques, products, and instrumentation were developed, tested, and marketed by the professional educators and manufacturers.
- Even today these professions continue their committment to improving embalming and restorative art.
20th Century
The care of the deceased to recreate natural form and color.
Restorative Art
Influenced by:
- Structure of bones
- Muscles
- Connective tissues
- Skin
Form of the Human Head
- Genetics
- Aging
- Environmental factors
- Nutrition
- Disease
- Pathological conditions
Things that Inflence the Structure of the Head
The study of the structures and surface markings of the face and features.
- Embalmers study this to understand the variations of facial and cranial forms.
Physiognomy
The study of humans as a biological species with interest in evolution and modern human variation
Physical Antropology
Based on certain assumed rules and tasks.
- First rule is to use special terminology
Scientific Study
An orderly classification of plants or animals by their presumed natural relationships.
- Allows us to make a general statement of importance
- We must be able to make generalizations about facial features, facial shapes, and forms of the cranium.
Taxonomy