Grief Made Marble

Author : Seth Estrin
Publisher : Yale University Press
ISBN 13 : 0300269366
Total Pages : 241 pages
Book Rating : 4.69/5 ( download)

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Download or read book Grief Made Marble written by Seth Estrin and published by Yale University Press. This book was released on 2023 with total page 241 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: A groundbreaking account of ancient Greek funerary sculpture and its emotional effects In this lyrically written and beautifully illustrated study, Seth Estrin probes the emotional effects of one of the largest and most important categories of Greek sculpture: the funerary monuments of Classical Athens. Instead of simply documenting experiences of bereavement, he demonstrates that funerary monuments played a vital role in giving grief visual and material presence, employing the subtle effects of relief sculpture to make private experiences of loss socially meaningful to others. By identifying the deaths they marked as worthy of grief, funerary monuments mobilized fundamental questions about sculptural form and pictorial recognition to political ends, instrumentalizing the emotional dimensions of sculpture as a means to construct and uphold social hierarchies. Grounded in careful study of numerous monuments, new readings of their accompanying epigrams and ancient literary sources, and close consideration of both ancient and modern theories of emotion, Grief Made Marble makes a landmark contribution not only to the study of Greek sculpture, but to our broader understanding of the relationship between art and emotion in antiquity.

Author : Percy Stickney Grant
Publisher :
ISBN 13 :
Total Pages : 196 pages
Book Rating : 4.59/5 ( download)

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Download or read book Essays written by Percy Stickney Grant and published by . This book was released on 1922 with total page 196 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt:

Author : Marianne Boruch
Publisher : Copper Canyon Press
ISBN 13 : 1619322102
Total Pages : 93 pages
Book Rating : 4.03/5 ( download)

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Download or read book The Anti-Grief written by Marianne Boruch and published by Copper Canyon Press. This book was released on 2020-01-15 with total page 93 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: What to do with the everything crossing one’s path? Everything for and against, upside down and inside out, grief first then its dogged shadow life, which could be joy. In The Anti-Grief, Marianne Boruch challenges our conceptions of memory, age, and time, revealing the many layers of perception and awareness. A book of meditations, these poems venture out into the world, jump their synapse, tie and untie knots, and misbehave. From Emily Dickinson’s chamber pot to meat-eating plants, from an angry octopus to crowds of salmon swimming upstream, Boruch’s imagery blurs the line between natural and supernatural. And of course there is grief—working through grief, getting over grief, living with grief, and in these magnificent poems, anti-grief.

Author : Milette Gaifman
Publisher : Yale University Press
ISBN 13 : 0300192274
Total Pages : 197 pages
Book Rating : 4.78/5 ( download)

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Download or read book The Art of Libation in Classical Athens written by Milette Gaifman and published by Yale University Press. This book was released on 2018-01-01 with total page 197 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: This handsome volume presents an innovative look at the imagery of libations, the most commonly depicted ritual in ancient Greece, and how it engaged viewers in religious performance. In a libation, liquid--water, wine, milk, oil, or honey--was poured from a vessel such as a jug or a bowl onto the ground, an altar, or another surface. Libations were made on occasions like banquets, sacrifices, oath-taking, departures to war, and visitations to tombs, and their iconography provides essential insight into religious and social life in 5th-century BC Athens. Scenes depicting the ritual often involved beholders directly--a statue's gaze might establish the onlooker as a fellow participant, or painted vases could draw parallels between human practices and acts of gods or heroes. Beautifully illustrated with a broad range of examples, including the Caryatids at the Acropolis, the Parthenon Frieze, Attic red-figure pottery, and funerary sculpture, this important book demonstrates the power of Greek art to transcend the boundaries between visual representation and everyday experience.

Author : Cynthia Mills
Publisher : Smithsonian Institution
ISBN 13 : 1935623389
Total Pages : 419 pages
Book Rating : 4.80/5 ( download)

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Download or read book Beyond Grief written by Cynthia Mills and published by Smithsonian Institution. This book was released on 2014-09-23 with total page 419 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: Beyond Grief explores high-style funerary sculptures and their functions during the turn of the twentieth century. Many scholars have overlooked these monuments, viewing them as mere oddities, a part of an individual artist's oeuvre, a detail of a patron's biography, or local civic cemetery history. This volume considers them in terms of their wider context and shifting use as objects of consolation, power, and multisensory mystery and wonder. Art historian Cynthia Mills traces the stories of four families who memorialized their losses through sculpture. Henry Brooks Adams commissioned perhaps the most famous American cemetery monument of all, the Adams Memorial in Washington, D.C. The bronze figure was designed by Augustus Saint-Gaudens, who became the nation’s foremost sculptor. Another innovative bronze monument featured the Milmore brothers, who had worked together as sculptors in the Boston area. Artist Frank Duveneck composed a recumbent portrait of his wife following her early death in Paris; in Rome, the aging William Wetmore Story made an angel of grief his last work as a symbol of his sheer desolation after his wife’s death. Through these incredible monuments Mills explores questions like: Why did new forms--many of them now produced in bronze rather than stone and placed in architectural settings--arise just at this time, and how did they mesh or clash with the sensibilities of their era? Why was there a gap between the intention of these elite patrons and artists, whose lives were often intertwined in a closed circle, and the way some public audiences received them through the filter of the mass media? Beyond Grief traces the monuments' creation, influence, and reception in the hope that they will help us to understand the larger story: how survivors used cemetery memorials as a vehicle to mourn and remember, and how their meaning changed over time.

Author : Jacqueline D. Bowden
Publisher : Archway Publishing
ISBN 13 : 1665759712
Total Pages : 327 pages
Book Rating : 4.17/5 ( download)

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Download or read book Get SpiritLit: Release Your Grief to a Purpose written by Jacqueline D. Bowden and published by Archway Publishing. This book was released on 2024-06-14 with total page 327 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: “Get SpiritLit: Release Grief to a Purpose” is a spiritual self-recovery work which centers around the of loss of a spouse a few months before and during the COVID-19 Pandemic. This book helps in grief and other stressful times to change your focus attention to comforting meditation, pleasant breathing, brighter thoughts, and a purpose. It is not a substitute for medication or appropriate medical care and does not promise a cure. The goal of SLEM2 is to feel closer to the organizing intelligence and power of God to heal and replace grief with a purpose that benefits others.

Author : Tonya Cunningham
Publisher :
ISBN 13 : 9780692560372
Total Pages : 120 pages
Book Rating : 4.78/5 ( download)

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Download or read book I Got My Marbles Back written by Tonya Cunningham and published by . This book was released on 2015-10-29 with total page 120 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: "There IS life after loss. It's just a different one." A decade of multiple traumatic events left Tonya Cunningham broken. In spite of her training as a grief counselor and doing all the right things, she fell into deep depression. The proverbial "lost her marbles" became reality in her life. But God led Tonya on a trek, a journey of healing. How could she ever rise from the ashes and regain the marbles of her mind? In her debut book, Tonya shares her story in hopes of helping others.

Author : Leslie Nathan Broughton
Publisher :
ISBN 13 :
Total Pages : 1412 pages
Book Rating : 4.01/5 ( download)

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Download or read book A Concordance to the Poems of Robert Browning written by Leslie Nathan Broughton and published by . This book was released on 1925 with total page 1412 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt:

Author : Karen Elizabeth Smythe
Publisher : McGill-Queen's Press - MQUP
ISBN 13 : 9780773509399
Total Pages : 232 pages
Book Rating : 4.99/5 ( download)

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Download or read book Figuring Grief written by Karen Elizabeth Smythe and published by McGill-Queen's Press - MQUP. This book was released on 1992 with total page 232 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: Karen Smythe's theoretical study is concerned largely with the works of two of the best short story writers in the English language Mavis Gallant and Alice Munro. Although Gallant and Munro have received increasing attention in recent years, most critics have taken a general approach to their works, usually discussing the themes of memory and loss. In contrast, Smythe focuses specifically on the importance of elegy in these fictions and on the role the reader plays in reading them.

Author : Corra Lynn
Publisher :
ISBN 13 :
Total Pages : 120 pages
Book Rating : 4.17/5 ( download)

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Download or read book Fast Life: Or, The City and the Farm written by Corra Lynn and published by . This book was released on 1856 with total page 120 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: