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| Soul in the Stone: Cemetery Art from America's Heartland
Hardcover
Author: John Gary Brown
Publisher: University Press of Kansas
Release Date: 1994-10
ISBN-10: 0700606343
ISBN-13: 9780700606344
List Price: $39.95
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"Wonderful, evocative photographs. Brown defines the place of the gravestone and cemetery in the vernacular culture of America's heartland". -- David C. Sloane, author of The Last Great Necessity: Cemeteries in American History. "A significant contribution to American regionalism". -- Richard E. Meyer, editor of Cemeteries and Gravemarkers. "A splendid book". -- American Heritage.
Fascinating and Well-Written
| Customer Rating: | Ok, so not everyone is into the "darker" side of life. We prefer to focus on sunflowers, streams and good old-fashioned values here in the midwest.
To many people, gravestones are just plain creepy. Haven't we all watched horror movies where the dead crawl out from beneath a cracked headstone and kill innocent lovers?
Mr. Brown's book made me look at the gravestones in a brighter (although not unentirely SAD) light. I saw the loss that families suffered through in the intricacy of massive stone mausoleums. I felt the emptiness of parents in the lifelike sculptures of their children. And I shook my head at the quirkiness of folks whose death markers are every bit as weird as they themselves must have been.
I've had this book for 5 years and I STILL pick it up now and again to read the stories behind the cemeteries. I have also given it as a gift to people in my life who I know won't get totally freaked out by it. They LOVE it.
It is a wonderful read/lookat/whatever.... just try it!-- |
Excellent book on tombstone art
| Customer Rating: | | My husband John and I love tombstone art and stomp around the countryside taking photos of cemeteries. This is one of our favorite books, with lots of wonderful photos of cemeteries around St. Louis and so forth. The author also writes a wonderful commentary on the nature of cemeteries, their conditions, and how we view them today as a modern American society. The photos of the children's graves are especially haunting. A must for collectors of tombstone art. |
A Portfolio of Work Worth a Second Look
| Customer Rating: | | John Gary Brown, does an excellent job at showing the eccentricity and beauty of grave markers. He uses different angles, and points of view in his compositions, to bring out a morbid beauty, that is rarely seen by the naked eye. A truly impressive collection of masterpieces. Just when you think the works speak for themselves, Brown also includes wonderful poetry, which co-exists perfectly with the photographs. A must for anyone's artistic anthology collection. |
Good photos but descriptions often contain errors.
| Customer Rating:  | | While the photography is excellent, and the author offers several interesting insights into symbolism and customs, the facts about particular monuments are incorrect. He gives the wrong locations for several monuments (placing them in cemeteries across town), and the descriptions of the cemeteries themselves contain errors |
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