Carved in Stone The Artistry of Early New England Gravestones

Name: Carved in Stone The Artistry of Early New England Gravestones
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ISBN: 9780819573018

ISBN-10: 0819573019

ISBN-13: 9780819573018

Edition: 2012

Authors: Thomas E. Gilson, William Gilson

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Gravestones are colonial America's earliest sculpture and they provide a unique physical link to the European people who settled here. Carved in Stone book is an elegant collection of over 80 fine duotone photographs, each a personal meditation on an old stone carving, and on New England's past, where these stones tell stories about death at sea, epidemics such as small pox, the loss of children, and a grim view of the afterlife. The essay is a graceful narrative that explores a long personal involvement with the stones and their placement in New England landscape, and attempts to trace the curious and imperfectly documented story of carvers. Brief quotes from early New England writers…

Book details

List price: $30.00
Copyright year: 2012
Publisher: Wesleyan University Press
Publication date: 11/1/2012
Binding: Hardcover
Pages: 138
Size: 10.32" wide x 9.26" long x 0.65" tall
Weight: 2.112
Language: English



Preface


Acknowledgments


Essay - "Stone Faces,"



Photographs



List of Plates


Bibliography