The Resource Beyond grief : sculpture and wonder in the gilded age cemetery, by Cynthia Mills
Beyond grief : sculpture and wonder in the gilded age cemetery, by Cynthia Mills
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- Summary
- 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 bronze figure was designed by Augustus Saint-Gaudens, who became the nation's foremost sculptor. Another innovative bronze monument featured the Milmore brothers, who had worked together as sculptors in the Boston area. Artist Frank Duveneck composed a recumbent portrait of his wife following her early death in Paris; in Rome, the aging William Wetmore Story made an angel of grief his last work as a symbol of his sheer desolation after his wife's death. Through these incredible monuments Mills explores questions like: Why did new forms--many of them now produced in bronze rather than stone and placed in architectural settings--arise just at this time, and how did they mesh or clash with the sensibilities of their era' Why was there a gap between the intention of these elite patrons and artists, whose lives were often intertwined in a closed circle, and the way some public audiences received them through the filter of the mass media' Beyond Grief traces the monuments' creation, influence, and reception in the hope that they will help us to understand the larger story: how survivors used cemetery memorials as a vehicle to mourn and remember, and how their meaning changed over time
- Language
- eng
- Extent
- 238 pages
- Isbn
- 9781935623793
- Label
- Beyond grief : sculpture and wonder in the gilded age cemetery
- Title
- Beyond grief
- Title remainder
- sculpture and wonder in the gilded age cemetery
- Statement of responsibility
- by Cynthia Mills
- Language
- eng
- Summary
- 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 bronze figure was designed by Augustus Saint-Gaudens, who became the nation's foremost sculptor. Another innovative bronze monument featured the Milmore brothers, who had worked together as sculptors in the Boston area. Artist Frank Duveneck composed a recumbent portrait of his wife following her early death in Paris; in Rome, the aging William Wetmore Story made an angel of grief his last work as a symbol of his sheer desolation after his wife's death. Through these incredible monuments Mills explores questions like: Why did new forms--many of them now produced in bronze rather than stone and placed in architectural settings--arise just at this time, and how did they mesh or clash with the sensibilities of their era' Why was there a gap between the intention of these elite patrons and artists, whose lives were often intertwined in a closed circle, and the way some public audiences received them through the filter of the mass media' Beyond Grief traces the monuments' creation, influence, and reception in the hope that they will help us to understand the larger story: how survivors used cemetery memorials as a vehicle to mourn and remember, and how their meaning changed over time
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- Mills, Cynthia
- Dewey number
- 731.76 MILL
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- Literary form
- non fiction
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- Sepulchral monuments
- Sepulchral monuments
- Art and society
- Art and society
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- Beyond grief : sculpture and wonder in the gilded age cemetery, by Cynthia Mills
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- Includes bibliographical references (pages 191-226) and index
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- 25 cm
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- 238 pages
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- 9781935623793
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- Beyond grief : sculpture and wonder in the gilded age cemetery, by Cynthia Mills
- Bibliography note
- Includes bibliographical references (pages 191-226) and index
- Carrier category
- volume
- Carrier category code
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- nc
- Carrier MARC source
- rdacarrier
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- text
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- txt
- sti
- Content type MARC source
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- rdacontent
- rdacontent
- Control code
- 1523314
- Dimensions
- 25 cm
- Extent
- 238 pages
- Isbn
- 9781935623793
- Media category
- unmediated
- Media MARC source
- rdamedia
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- n
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- illustrations
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- (Sirsi) i9781935623793
- (OCoLC)904968058
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