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- catalog abstract ""Many cemeteries in Europe are highly maintained sculpture gardens strewn with shockingly sensual sculptures of women. They are perfect, idealized creations - young, gorgeous, elaborately posed, and beautifully sculpted. Often naked or barely clothed, and consumed with grief for the dead, they are both a stunning and a compelling presence among the other gravestones. David Robinson's exquisite photographs reveal the angelic beauty and mystery of these lifelike sculptures. In her foreword, Joyce Carol Oates explores the many implications of these grief-stricken, extremely provocative female figures - our obsession with mortality, the rituals of mourning, the conflation of death and the erotic, the perfect female form as a male fantasy and a symbol of status."--Jacket.".
- catalog contributor b8372477.
- catalog created "c1995.".
- catalog date "1995".
- catalog date "c1995.".
- catalog dateCopyrighted "c1995.".
- catalog description ""Many cemeteries in Europe are highly maintained sculpture gardens strewn with shockingly sensual sculptures of women. They are perfect, idealized creations - young, gorgeous, elaborately posed, and beautifully sculpted. Often naked or barely clothed, and consumed with grief for the dead, they are both a stunning and a compelling presence among the other gravestones. David Robinson's exquisite photographs reveal the angelic beauty and mystery of these lifelike sculptures. In her foreword, Joyce Carol Oates explores the many implications of these grief-stricken, extremely provocative female figures - our obsession with mortality, the rituals of mourning, the conflation of death and the erotic, the perfect female form as a male fantasy and a symbol of status."--Jacket.".
- catalog description "Includes bibliographical references.".
- catalog extent "114, [14] p. :".
- catalog identifier "0393037940".
- catalog identifier "0393313336 (pbk.)".
- catalog issued "1995".
- catalog issued "c1995.".
- catalog language "eng".
- catalog publisher "New York : W.W. Norton,".
- catalog spatial "Europe.".
- catalog subject "730/.94/09034 20".
- catalog subject "NB1859 .R63 1995".
- catalog subject "Sculpture, European 19th century.".
- catalog subject "Sculpture, Modern 19th century Europe.".
- catalog subject "Sepulchral monuments Europe.".
- catalog subject "Symbolism in art Europe.".
- catalog subject "Women in art.".
- catalog title "Saving graces : images of women in European cemeteries / David Robinson ; foreword by Joyce Carol Oates.".
- catalog type "text".