The Silent Rhetoric of the Body
A History of Monumental Sculpture and Commemorative Art in England, 1720-1770
Seiten
2008
Yale University Press (Verlag)
978-0-300-13541-1 (ISBN)
Yale University Press (Verlag)
978-0-300-13541-1 (ISBN)
Looks at a neglected corner of eighteenth-century art - the funeral monument. This book demonstrates that tombs and inscriptions are of manifest worth to the student of eighteenth-century English value systems, providing as they do an archaeology of ideal types.
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 explains conditions of production and the shifting dynamics of the market. He concludes with a masterly analysis of the motivations of the people who commissioned monuments, from aristocrats to merchants and professional people.
Published for the Paul Mellon Centre for Studies in British Art
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 explains conditions of production and the shifting dynamics of the market. He concludes with a masterly analysis of the motivations of the people who commissioned monuments, from aristocrats to merchants and professional people.
Published for the Paul Mellon Centre for Studies in British Art
Matthew Craske is Senior Lecturer in History of Art at Oxford Brookes University
| Erscheint lt. Verlag | 21.2.2008 |
|---|---|
| Zusatzinfo | 60 b-w illus. |
| Sprache | englisch |
| Maße | 191 x 254 mm |
| Gewicht | 2041 g |
| Themenwelt | Kunst / Musik / Theater ► Kunstgeschichte / Kunststile |
| Kunst / Musik / Theater ► Malerei / Plastik | |
| ISBN-10 | 0-300-13541-6 / 0300135416 |
| ISBN-13 | 978-0-300-13541-1 / 9780300135411 |
| Zustand | Neuware |
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