Beyond Grief: Sculpture and Wonder in the Guilded Age Cemetery by Cynthia Mills The Curious Company What have we not done

What have we not done to live forever

Cryptotympana aquila in black 6x8" shadow box frame

Mounted on a stained wooden base

Authentic human scapula bone

Beyond Grief: Sculpture and Wonder in the Guilded Age Cemetery by Cynthia Mills The Curious Company What have we not doneBeyond 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