In Puritan New England, with its abiding concern for things not of this world and its distrust of forms and ceremonies, one art flourished: the symbolic art of mortuary monument stonecarvers. This carefully researched, beautifully illustrated work was the first to consider this art in depth as a meaningful aesthetic-spiritual expression. It is reissued for today's readers, with a new preface outlining changes in the field since the book appeared in 1966.
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"The classic exemplar of the method of looking at icons on gravestones and relating them to religious texts in an effort to reveal their meaning was perfected by Allan Ludwig in his Graven Images, first published in 1966...This edition provides the young scholar with a time-tested model of scholarship and analysis and the seasoned scholar with new reflections on old work." --Journal of American Folklore
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"A big, superbly printed collection . . . To leaf through this book is to confront a vanished community trying to make sense of itself through art." (Greil Marcus, Rolling Stone )
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Particularly striking are the many plates which provide a rare insight into the artistic notions of a culture that generally frowned on decoration. As a document on early American notions of form, the books holds its own with the best studies of architecture, pottery and antiques that I have seen.
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SAMUEL WILLARD, Vice President of Harvard College and a prominent Boston minister until his death, had a great deal to say about how language should function in investigating man's knowledge of God. Read the first page Key Phrases - Statistically Improbable Phrases (SIPs): (learn more)
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provincial baroque style, soul effigy, serrated row, soul effigies, mystical vine, central frieze, portrait effigies, border panels, children stone, old gravestones, lower law, institutionalized church, ornamental style, verbal symbols, discursive language, family stone, immediate revelation Key Phrases - Capitalized Phrases (CAPs): (learn more)
New England, Rhode Island, Connecticut Valley, South Windsor, Copp's Hill, Essex County, The Granary, Jonathan Edwards, East Glastonbury, Mansfield Center, Benjamin Collins, East Hartford, John Stevens, Edward Taylor, Joseph Lamson, New London, Plymouth County, Great Awakenings, Nathaniel Jackson, Thomas Hart, Middle Ages, Samuel Willard, Zerubbabel Collins, Bunhill Fields, Joshua Hempstead New!
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- English Churchyard Memorials by Frederick Burgess on 5 pages
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- Rhode Island (Regional Photos) by Richard Benjamin on 4 pages
- Rhode Island (Portrait of America) by Kathleen Thompson on page 85, page 148, and Back Matter
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