John Gary Brown illuminates cultural, historic, and aesthetic roles of gravestones throughout Wisconsin, Indiana, Illinois, Iowa, Missouri, Kansas, Nebraska, Oklahoma, Colorado, and New Mexico. This comprehensive volume examines the compelling subjects of death and burial across cultures and societies. Corpses, Coffins, and Crypts includes photographs and descriptions of famous people, a collection of literary quotes, images of death and burial in the arts, interesting epitaphs, and gravestone carvings.
Thousands visit New Orleans' cemeteries each year to see the arresting above-ground tombs.
Sandra Russell Clark's spellbinding collection of photographs captures art, poetry, history, spirit, and humanity, as well as the solid substance of stone, marble, and wrought iron. The ethereal and tangible are one in these photo images, truly the meeting grounds between the living and the dead. 150 duotones . An Illustrated Guide to the Cemeteries of London by Judi Culbertson, Tom Randall. Esther Schor tells us about the persistence of the dead, about why they still matter long after we emerge from grief and accept our loss.