The Silent Rhetoric of the Body: A History of Monumental Sculpture and Commemorative Art in England, 1720-1770
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This illuminating and original book is the first to examine eighteenth-century British funeral monuments in their social, as well as their artistic, context, looking not only at the sculptors who created the monuments, but also the people who commissioned them and the people they commemorated. Matthew Craske begins by analyzing the relationship of tomb designs to the changing and diverse culture of death in eighteenth-century England, and then...
Format:Hardcover
Language:English
ISBN:0300135416
ISBN13:9780300135411
Release Date:March 2008
Publisher:Yale University Press
Length:256 Pages
Weight:4.46 lbs.
Dimensions:1.5" x 8.0" x 10.2"
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