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The Silent Rhetoric of the Body : A History of Monumental Sculpture and Commemorative Art in England, 1720-1770, Hardback Book

The Silent Rhetoric of the Body : A History of Monumental Sculpture and Commemorative Art in England, 1720-1770 Hardback

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This illuminating and original book is the first to examine eighteenth-century British funeral monuments in their social, as well as their artistic, context, looking not only at the sculptors who created the monuments, but also the people who commissioned them and the people they commemorated.

Matthew Craske begins by analyzing the relationship of tomb designs to the changing and diverse culture of death in eighteenth-century England, and then explains conditions of production and the shifting dynamics of the market.

He concludes with a masterly analysis of the motivations of the people who commissioned monuments, from aristocrats to merchants and professional people.

Published for the Paul Mellon Centre for Studies in British Art

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