Beyond Grief: Sculpture and Wonder in the Guilded Age Cemetery by Cynthia Mills The Curious Company Blue wildebeest skin / hide

Blue wildebeest skin / hide with natural imperfections

Please notice the X-shaped discoloration on the front of skull A

What have we not done to live forever

Mounted on a stained wooden base

Beyond Grief: Sculpture and Wonder in the Guilded Age Cemetery by Cynthia Mills The Curious Company Blue wildebeest skin / hideBeyond Grief explores high style funerary sculptures and their functions during the turn of the twentieth century. Many scholars have overlooked these monuments, viewing them as mere oddities, a part of an individual artist's oeuvre, a detail of a patron's biography, or local civic cemetery history. This volume considers them in terms of their wider context and shifting use as objects of consolation, power, and multisensory mystery and wonder. Art