Name/Title
Memorials for Children of Change: The Art of Early New England StonecarvingEntry/Object ID
2015.002.008Description
A study of the 17th- and 18th-century gravestones of New England.
Contents: Puritan attitudes toward art -- Rituals for god and history -- Symbolic modes of Christian metamorphosis (the funeral sermon and plain style, the funeral elegy, broadside verse, the gravestone, patterns of change and the craft of carving) -- Emblems of mortality -- Figures of angels -- Portraits in stone and spirit -- The unfolding of imagery -- Tableau, allegory, and typology -- The icons of Essex County -- The John Stevens shop of Newport -- The gravestone considered: toward an American Art -- Epitaphs
xv, 309 p.: ill. ; 26 cm.Collection
Historic Charleston Foundation LibraryAcquisition
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2015.002Source or Donor
New Library Catalog Records (2015)Acquisition Method
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Category 08: Communication ObjectsSearch Terms
Funeral rites and ceremonies--New England, Stone carving--New England, Puritans--EnglandBook Details
Author
Tashjian, Dickran, 1940-, Rigby, Ivan B.
Tashjian, Ann, 1942-Publisher
Wesleyan University PressDate Published
circa 1974Call No.
GT3205 .T37 1978ISBN
0819540617LCCN
73006006Notes
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PermanentDate
February 7, 2023General Notes
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Notes: By Dickran Tashjian and Ann Tashjian.
Includes bibliographical references (p. [297]-299) and index.Created By
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February 17, 2023