A time to mourn
An edition of A time to mourn (1980)
expressions of grief in nineteenth century America
By Martha V. Pike
Publish Date
1980
Publisher
Museums at Stony Brook
Language
eng
Pages
192
Description:
A Time to Mourn explores in words and pictures the development and decline of urban American mourning customs during the nineteenth century. The seven essays in this book treat nineteenth-century mourning as a subject of social history. The surviving tangible expressions of grief, the graveyards, silk and wool embroideries, jewelry, paintings and fashionable mourning costumes are depicted through the abundantly illustrated essays and an extensive catalog of mourning relics.
subjects: American Art, Exhibitions, Grief in art, Modern Art
Times: 19th century