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Soul in the stone : cemetery art from America's heartland

Title: Soul in the stone : cemetery art from America's heartland / John Gary Brown.
Author: Brown, John Gary.
Publication: Lawrence, Kan. : University Press of Kansas, ©1994.

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Description

246 pages : illustrations; 29 cm

Summary

"Celebrating master stone sculptors as well as grassroots and ethnic folk artists, Brown's images document the rich traditions of cemetery art as found throughout Wisconsin, Indiana, Illinois, Iowa, Missouri, Kansas, Nebraska, Oklahoma, Colorado, and New Mexico. Combining strong visual images with stories and analysis, Brown illuminates the cultural, historic, and aesthetic roles of gravestones in both metropolitan and rural cemeteries." "The art itself manifests a great many forms and subjects, including life-size limestone statuary, hovering marble angels, and ornate wrought-iron crosses, in addition to the more modest traditional motifs in etched granite and concrete. Brown also records the idiosyncratic and the bizarre - an Egyptian sphinx, a gigantic baseball, an elaborate locomotive, a converted car engine - and provides insight into the meaning of epitaphs and iconography."--Jacket.

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Bibliography (note)

Includes bibliographical references (p. 245-246).

Contents

The cemetery and the living -- Religious iconography -- A life well lived -- Secular images : familiar and obscure -- Children -- Umbrella organizations -- Ethnic influences -- Ashes to ashes.

ISBN

0700606343
9780700606344

LCCN

94018952

OCLC

ocm30545786
30545786
SCSB-2036224

Owning Institutions

Princeton University Library