Pioneer Cemeteries

Sculpture Gardens of the Old West

Autor: Annette Stott

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Editura: University of Nebraska Press

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As pioneers attempted to settle and civilize the 'Wild West,' cemeteries became important cultural c...

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Autor

Annette Stott

Limbă

engleză

Legare

Carte - Copertă tare

Publicat

2008

Pagini

404

EAN

9780803216082

ISBN

0803216084

Enbook ID

04922452

Editura

University of Nebraska Press

Greutate

1179

Dimensiuni

178 x 254 x 28

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As pioneers attempted to settle and civilize the 'Wild West,' cemeteries became important cultural centres. Filled with carved wooden headboards, inscribed local stones, and Italian marble statues, they functioned as symbols of stability and progress toward a European-inspired vision of Manifest Destiny. As repositories of art and history, these pioneer cemeteries tell the story of communities and visual culture emerging together within the developing landscape of the Old West. Annette Stott traces this story through Rocky Mountain towns on the western frontier, from the unkempt 'boot hills' of the early mining camps and cattle settlements to the more refined 'fair mounts.'She shows how people from Asia, Europe, and the Americas contributed to the visual character of the mountain cemeteries, and how the sepulchral garden functioned as an open-air gallery of public sculpture, at once a site for relaxation, learning, and social ritual. Here, widespread participation in a variety of ceremonies brought mountain communities together with a frequency almost unimaginable today. Illustrated with eighty-three striking photographs, this book shows how the pioneer cemetery emerged as a site of public sculpture and cultural transmission in which each carved or moulded monument played dual (and sometimes conflicting) public and private roles, recording the community's history and values while memorializing individuals and events.

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