Saving graces
images of women in European cemeteries
by Robinson, David
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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Women in art, Sculpture, European, Sepulchral monuments, European Sculpture, Symbolism in art, Sculpture, modern, New York Times reviewedPlaces
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Saving graces: images of women in European cemeteries
1995, W.W. Norton, W. W. Norton & Company
in English
- 1st ed.
0393037940 9780393037944
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