Beyond Grief Sculpture and Wonder in the Gilded Age Cemetery

Name: Beyond Grief Sculpture and Wonder in the Gilded Age Cemetery
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ISBN: 9781935623793

ISBN-10: 1935623796

ISBN-13: 9781935623793

Edition: 2015

Authors: Cynthia Mills

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"Beyond Grief "explores high-style funerary sculptures and their functions during the turn of the twentieth century. Many scholars have overlooked these monuments, viewing them as mere oddities, a part of an individual artist's oeuvre, a detail of a patron's biography, or local civic cemetery history. This volume considers them in terms of their wider context and shifting use as objects of consolation, power, and multisensory mystery and wonder.Art historian Cynthia Mills traces the stories of four families who memorialized their losses through sculpture. Henry Brooks Adams commissioned perhaps the most famous American cemetery monument of all, the Adams Memorial in Washington, D.C. The…

Book details

List price: $32.95
Copyright year: 2015
Publisher: Smithsonian Institution Scholarly Press
Publication date: 5/5/2015
Binding: Paperback
Pages: 242
Size: 7.25" wide x 10.00" long x 0.75" tall
Weight: 1.188