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Název:		A Time to Mourn: Expressions of Grief in Nineteenth Century America
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Rok vydání:		1980
Identifikátory:		9780295963259

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Anotace:	Published in conjunction with an exhibition held May 24-Nov. 16, 1980, at The Museums at Stony Brook, Stony Brook, N.Y., exploring in words and pictures the development and decline of urban American mourning customs during the nineteenth century. The exhibition catalog includes images of 244 tangible expressions of grief, including gravestones, monuments and cemetery sculpture; silk and wool embroideries; jewelry; paintings, lithographs and photographs; and fashionable mourning costumes. Seven illustrated essays complete the book: Where All Our Steps Are Tending: Death in the American Context by David E. Stannard; The Problem of Time in 19th Century America by Harvey Green; Symbolic Death: An Anthropological View of Mourning Ritual in the Nineteenth Century by Lawrence Taylor; The Worldly Side of Paradise: Green-Wood Cemetery by Donald E. Simon; Posthumous mourning portraiture by Phoebe Lloyd; Chrysallis of Gloom: 19th Century American Mourning Costume by Barbara Dodd Hillerman; Truly We Live in a Dying World: Mourning on Long Island, by P.G. Buckley.
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