num_pages: 532
description: The classic study of gravestone artIn Puritan New England, with its abiding concern for things not of this world and its distrust of forms and ceremonies, one art the symbolic art of mortuary monument stonecarvers. This carefully researched, beautifully illustrated work was the first to consider this art in depth as a meaningful aesthetic-spiritual expression. It is reissued for today's readers, with a new preface outlining changes in the field since the book appeared in 1966.
language: English
title: Graven Images: New England Stonecarving and its Symbols, 1650–1815
titlecomplete: Graven Images: New England Stonecarving and its Symbols, 1650–1815
genres: Art, History, Death, Nonfiction
ratings_count: 66
publisher: Wesleyan University Press