Beyond Grief: Sculpture and Wonder in the Guilded Age Cemetery by Cynthia Mills Horn & Antler Skulls procession badges

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Beyond Grief: Sculpture and Wonder in the Guilded Age Cemetery by Cynthia Mills Horn & Antler Skulls procession badgesBeyond Grief explores high style funerary sculptures and their functions during the turn of the twentieth century. Many scholars have overlooked these monuments, viewing them as mere oddities, a part of an individual artist's oeuvre, a detail of a patron's biography, or local civic cemetery history. This volume considers them in terms of their wider context and shifting use as objects of consolation, power, and multisensory mystery and wonder. Art