The silent rhetoric of the body : a history of monumental sculpture and commemorative art in England, 1720-1770 / Matthew Craske.

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Craske, Matthew.

Title & Author:

The silent rhetoric of the body : a history of monumental sculpture and commemorative art in England, 1720-1770 / Matthew Craske.

Publication:

Description:

xiii, 528 pages : illustrations ; 27 cm

Notes:
Includes bibliographical references (pages 496-514) and index.
Introduction -- A new theatre of death and commemoration -- The decline of heraldry and the rise of the trophy and the 'image' -- Roubiliac and the presentation of the military image -- Reform : the rise of a polite, commercial and cosmopolitan culture -- The 'silent rhetoric' of Rysbrack's noble masculine bodies -- Counter-reformation : 'Sculpture waves her hand' to produce a new rhetoric -- Post-reform : the fruition of nationalist stratagems -- Pillars of Absalom -- Gratitude and legitimation -- Monumental nostalgia : the politics of dynastic discontinuities and domestic tragedies -- Gratitude and grief : feminine donor figures -- Communities of matronal and maiden virtue -- Male bereavement -- 'A humbler stone' : monuments to entrepreneurs and merchants -- The professional pillars of state : monuments to the great office holders of the church and judiciary.

Summary:

Matthew Craske looks closely at tomb sculptures in their social context. He discusses a large number of monuments by many different sculptors, all with a knowledge of the person commemorated and the circumstances behind the commission.

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ISBN:

9780300135411 (hardcover)
0300135416 (hardcover)

Subject:

Sepulchral monuments England History 18th century.
Manners and customs.
Sepulchral monuments.
England Social life and customs 18th century.
Angleterre Mœurs et coutumes 18e siècle.
England.

Form/genre:

History.

Holdings:

Location: Library main 256207
Call No.: BIB 186526
Status: Available

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