The Silent Rhetoric of the Body: A History of Monumental Sculpture and Commemorative Art in England, 1720-1770

by Matthew Craske

This illuminating and original book is the first to examine eighteenth-century British funeral monuments in their social, as well as their artistic, context, looking not only at the sculptors who created the monuments, but also the people who commissioned them and the people they commemorated. Matthew Craske begins by analyzing the relationship of tomb designs to the changing and diverse culture of death in eighteenth-century England, and then...

• Format: Hardcover
• Language: English
• ISBN: 0300135416
• ISBN13: 9780300135411
• Release Date: March 2008
• Publisher: Yale University Press
• Length: 256 Pages
• Weight: 4.46 lbs.
• Dimensions: 1.5" x 8.0" x 10.2"