What is the Meaning of Life?

Tania Moore is Head of Exhibitions at the Sainsbury Centre. Her publications include Rhythm and Geometry: Constructivist Art in Britain Since 1951 (2021) and Henry Moore: Friendships and Legacies (2020).With contributions from Jessica Barker, Senior Lecturer in Medieval Art at The Courtauld in London; Jago Cooper, Executive Director of the Sainsbury Centre, and Professor of Art and Archaeology at the UEA; Rosy Gray, Head of Living Art at the Sainsbury Centre; Ben Highmore, Emeritus Professor of Cultural Studies at the University of Sussex and a Fellow of the British Academy. Ed Krčma, Associate Professor of Art History at the UEA; John Kenneth Paranada, Curator of Art and Climate Change at the Sainsbury Centre, and a researcher at the Tyndall Centre for Climate Change Research, UEA; and Samuele Tacconi, an archaeologist with a PhD from the UEA.

• Foreword - Jago Cooper Introduction - Tania Moore and Jago CooperJoy Like Time - John Kenneth ParanadaGlorious, Convulsive Frivolity: Wild Play - Ben HighmoreGods, Heroes and Kings at Play: Games in Human Societies - Sam Tacconi Living by the Rule - Ed Krčma and Jessica Barker Libby Heaney: Life in the Multiverse - Rosy Gray AcknowledgementsAuthor biographies Picture credits Notes Index