Memorials for Children of Change: The Art of Early New England Stonecarving

Book

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Historic Charleston Foundation

Name/Title

Memorials for Children of Change: The Art of Early New England Stonecarving

Entry/Object ID

2015.002.008

Description

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 Library

Acquisition

Accession

2015.002

Source or Donor

New Library Catalog Records (2015)

Acquisition Method

Found in Collection

Lexicon

Search Terms

Funeral rites and ceremonies--New England, Stone carving--New England, Puritans--England

Book Details

Author

Tashjian, Dickran, 1940-, Rigby, Ivan B. Tashjian, Ann, 1942-

Publisher

Wesleyan University Press

Place Published

Location

Middletown, CT

Date Published

circa 1974

Call No.

GT3205 .T37 1978

ISBN

0819540617

LCCN

73006006

Notes

Copy No.: 0

Location

Location

Building

Missroon Library

Category

Permanent

Date

February 7, 2023

General Notes

Note

Notes: By Dickran Tashjian and Ann Tashjian. Includes bibliographical references (p. [297]-299) and index.

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Create Date

January 9, 2015

Updated By

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Update Date

February 17, 2023