[Mobile pdf] Carved in Stone: The Artistry of Early New England Gravestones
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| #214441 in Books | Wesleyan | 2012-11-01 | Original language:English | PDF # 1 | 10.34 x.65 x9.24l,1.86 | File Name: 0819573019 | 138 pages |
||1 of 1 people found the following review helpful.| I really like this book the more I look at it the ...|By Mary F. Carroll|I really like this book the more I look at it the more I enjoy it.At first I bought it for the photos .but it has some good info also Could be used as a refrence for gravestone styles,carvers and localities.|1 of 1 people found the following review helpful.| Five Stars|From Library Journal|In a culture that shared image making as idolatry, the emergence of gravestone art in 17th-century Puritan communities marked a shift, one in which the spiritual world could be conveyed with dignity and grace as well as represent the dec
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 e...
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