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Funerary Arts and Tomb Cult - Living with the Dead in France, 1750-1870 (Hardcover, New Ed)
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Funerary Arts and Tomb Cult - Living with the Dead in France, 1750-1870 (Hardcover, New Ed)
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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.
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