Silent rhetoric of the body, the: a history of monumental sculpture and commemorative art in england, 1720-1770
Auteur :
Craske, Matthew
Éditeur :
Yale University Press
ISBN :
9780300135411
Date de publication :
21 févr. 2008
Dimensions :
25,4 x 19,1 cm
Poids :
2041 g
Format :
Cloth over boards
Langue :
Anglais
Pays d'origine :
USA
Looks at a neglected corner of eighteenth-century art - the funeral monument. This book demonstrates that tombs and inscriptions are of manifest worth to the student of eighteenth-century English value systems, providing as they do an archaeology of ideal types.