Beyond Grief: Sculpture and Wonder in the Guilded Age Cemetery by Cynthia Mills Horn & Antler Skulls wax models

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Learn the ancient art of reading tea leaves - or coffee grounds - with this beautifully designed cup and saucer

magical orders such as the Golden Dawn and Rosicrucians

Texts on the work

and the mysterious

Beyond Grief: Sculpture and Wonder in the Guilded Age Cemetery by Cynthia Mills Horn & Antler Skulls wax modelsBeyond 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