Funerary Arts and Tomb Cult - Living with the Dead in France, 1750-1870 (Paperback)

Even before the upheaval of the Revolution, France sought a new formal language for a regenerated nation. Nowhere is this clearer than in its tombs, some among its most famous modern sculpture-rarely discussed as funerary projects. Unlike other art-historical studies of tombs, this one frames sculptural examples within the full spectrum of the material funerary arts of the period, along with architecture and landscape. This book further widens the standard scope to shed new and needed light on the interplay of the funerary arts, tomb cult, and the mentalities that shaped them in France, over a period famous for profound and often violent change. Suzanne Glover Lindsay also brings the abundant recent work on the body to the funerary arts and tomb cult for the first time, confronting cultural and aesthetic issues through her examination of a celebrated sculptural type, the recumbent effigy of the deceased in death. Using many unfamiliar period sources, this study reinterprets several famous tombs and funerals and introduces significant enterprises that are little known today to suggest the prominent place held by tomb cult in nineteenth-century France. Images of the tombs complement the text to underline sculpture's unique formal power in funerary mode.

General

Imprint:	Routledge
Country of origin:	United Kingdom
Release date:	November 2016
First published:	2012
Authors:	Suzanne Glover Lindsay
Dimensions:	234 x 156 x 15mm (L x W x T)
Format:	Paperback
Pages:	276
ISBN-13:	978-1-138-26121-1
Categories:	Books > Arts & Architecture > The arts: general issues > General Books > Arts & Architecture > Art forms, treatments & subjects > General Books > Medicine > General issues > General Books > Arts & Architecture > History of art / art & design styles > Art styles not limited by date > General Books > Arts & Architecture > History of art / art & design styles > 1800 to 1900 > General Books > Humanities > History > World history > 1500 to 1750 Books > Humanities > History > World history > 1750 to 1900 Books > Humanities > History > History of specific subjects > Industrial history Books > Social sciences > Sociology, social studies > Social issues > General Books > History > History of specific subjects > Industrial history Books > History > World history > 1500 to 1750 Books > History > World history > 1750 to 1900 Promotions
LSN:	1-138-26121-1
Barcode:	9781138261211

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