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An edition of Saving graces (1995)

Saving graces

images of women in European cemeteries

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Many cemeteries in Europe are highly maintained sculpture gardens strewn with shockingly sensual sculptures of women. They are perfect, idealized creations - young, gorgeous, elaborately posed, and beautifully sculpted. Often naked or barely clothed, and consumed with grief for the dead, they are both a stunning and a compelling presence among the other gravestones. David Robinson's exquisite photographs reveal the angelic beauty and mystery of these lifelike sculptures.

In her foreword, Joyce Carol Oates explores the many implications of these grief-stricken, extremely provocative female figures - our obsession with mortality, the rituals of mourning, the conflation of death and the erotic, the perfect female form as a male fantasy and a symbol of status.

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W.W. Norton, W. W. Norton & Company
Language
English
Pages
114

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Subjects
Women in art, Sculpture, European, Sepulchral monuments, European Sculpture, Symbolism in art, Sculpture, modern, New York Times reviewed
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Europe
Times
19th century

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Saving graces: images of women in European cemeteries
1995, W.W. Norton, W. W. Norton & Company
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Includes bibliographical references.

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730/.94/09034
Library of Congress
NB1859 .R63 1995, NB1859.R63 1995

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114, [14] p. :
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114

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OL1272738M
ISBN 10
0393037940, 0393313336
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95004069
OCLC/WorldCat
32012344
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217213
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