The Silent Rhetoric of the Body
Subtitle: A History of Monumental Sculpture and Commemorative Art in England, 1720-1770 (Paul Mellon Centre for Studies in British Art)
Publisher: Yale University Press
Published: February 28, 2008
Language: eng
Format: Hardcover
Number of pages: 256
ISBN-13: 9780300135411
Subjects: History of art & design styles: c 1600 to c 1800; c 1700 to c 1800; Art; Art & Art Instruction; England; European; Sculpture; Art / Sculpture; History - General
Description: Matthew Craske looks closely at tomb sculptures in their social context. He discusses a large number of monuments by many different sculptors, all with a knowledge of the person commemorated and the circumstances behind the commission.