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Title: Soul in the Stone: Cemetery Art from America's Heartland by John Gary Brown ISBN: 0-7006-0634-3 Publisher: University Press of Kansas Pub. Date: 01 October, 1994 Format: Hardcover Volumes: 1 List Price(USD): $39.95 |
Average Customer Rating: 4.75 (4 reviews)
Rating: 5
Summary: Fascinating and Well-Written
Comment: Ok, so not everyone is into the "darker" side of life. We prefer to focus on sunflowers, streams and good old-fashioned values here in the midwest.
To many people, gravestones are just plain creepy. Haven't we all watched horror movies where the dead crawl out from beneath a cracked headstone and kill innocent lovers?
Mr. Brown's book made me look at the gravestones in a brighter (although not unentirely SAD) light. I saw the loss that families suffered through in the intricacy of massive stone mausoleums. I felt the emptiness of parents in the lifelike sculptures of their children. And I shook my head at the quirkiness of folks whose death markers are every bit as weird as they themselves must have been.
I've had this book for 5 years and I STILL pick it up now and again to read the stories behind the cemeteries. I have also given it as a gift to people in my life who I know won't get totally freaked out by it. They LOVE it.
It is a wonderful read/lookat/whatever.... just try it!--
Rating: 5
Summary: Excellent book on tombstone art
Comment: My husband John and I love tombstone art and stomp around the countryside taking photos of cemeteries. This is one of our favorite books, with lots of wonderful photos of cemeteries around St. Louis and so forth. The author also writes a wonderful commentary on the nature of cemeteries, their conditions, and how we view them today as a modern American society. The photos of the children's graves are especially haunting. A must for collectors of tombstone art.
Rating: 5
Summary: A Portfolio of Work Worth a Second Look
Comment: John Gary Brown, does an excellent job at showing the eccentricity and beauty of grave markers. He uses different angles, and points of view in his compositions, to bring out a morbid beauty, that is rarely seen by the naked eye. A truly impressive collection of masterpieces. Just when you think the works speak for themselves, Brown also includes wonderful poetry, which co-exists perfectly with the photographs. A must for anyone's artistic anthology collection.
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Title: Going Out in Style: The Architecture of Eternity by Douglas Keister, Xavier Cronin ISBN: 0816036497 Publisher: Facts on File Pub. Date: 01 December, 1997 List Price(USD): $29.95 |
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Title: Cemeteries and Gravemarkers: Voices of American Culture by Richard E. Meyer ISBN: 0874211603 Publisher: Utah State University Press Pub. Date: 01 December, 1992 List Price(USD): $23.95 |
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Title: Beautiful Death: Art of the Cemetery (Penguin Studio Books) by David Robinson, Dean R. Koontz ISBN: 067086806X Publisher: Penguin USA Pub. Date: 01 October, 1996 List Price(USD): $24.95 |
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Title: Stories in Stone: A Field Guide to Cemetery Symbolism and Iconography by Douglas Keister ISBN: 158685321X Publisher: Gibbs Smith Publishers Pub. Date: 01 April, 2004 List Price(USD): $24.95 |
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Title: Your Guide to Cemetery Research by Sharon Debartolo Carmack ISBN: 1558705899 Publisher: Betterway Books Pub. Date: 01 April, 2002 List Price(USD): $19.99 |
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