"..her book is the first comprehensive overview of many of the varied aspects of what [the author] calls 'visual cultures of death'. [...] Koutny-Jones [...] points to unique or unfamiliar iconographical features of monuments or images that previously have been unduly ignored or neglected. [...] Her well informed study takes up the argument for considering alternatives to earlier models of cultural innovation and diffusion."
Professor Thomas DaCosta Kaufmann, Princeton University, in Print Quarterly, XXXIV, 2017, 1

"As the author states, the goal of this monograph is to ‘synthesise a diverse body of artistic material previously omitted from international scholarship’ (p. 13). It delivers handsomely on that promise. Making this material available to the English-speaking reader for the first time in such a comprehensive format, K.-J.’s study will appeal to historians of Polish-Lithuanian art and visual culture, scholars of East Central Europe and specialists in death studies. Clear and informative, the book has the potential to become a standard English-language reference on the subject."
Tomasz Grusiecki, in: Zeitschrift für Ostmitteleuropa-Forschung, 66 (2017).