Beyond Grief: Sculpture and Wonder in the Guilded Age Cemetery by Cynthia Mills Horn & Antler Skulls 75 X 2 X 6

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Beyond Grief: Sculpture and Wonder in the Guilded Age Cemetery by Cynthia Mills Horn & Antler Skulls 75 X 2 X 6Beyond 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