AuthorPike, Martha V.
TitleA time to mourn : expressions of grief in nineteenth century America / Martha V. Pike and Janice Gray Armstrong.
PublishedStony Brook, N.Y. : Museums at Stony Brook, c1980.
Description192 p. : ill. (some col.) ; 28 cm.
General NoteExhibition held May 24-Nov. 16, 1980 at Museums at Stony Brook, Stony Brook, N.Y.
Includes index.
Bib. NoteBibliography: p. 190.
Formatted NotePartial Contents: Where all our steps are tending : death in the American context / David E. Stannard -- The problem of time in nineteenth century America / Harvey Green -- Symbolic death : an anthropological view of mourning ritual in the nineteenth century / Lawrence Taylor -- The worldly side of paradise : Green-Wood Cemetery / Donald E. Simon -- Posthumous mourning portraiture / Phoebe Lloyd -- Chrysallis of gloom : nineteenth century American mourning costume / Barbara Dodd Hillerman -- Truly we live in a dying world : mourning on Long Island / P.G. Buckley
SubjectsArt, American -- Exhibitions.
Art, Modern -- 19th century -- United States -- Exhibitions.
Grief in art -- Exhibitions.
Other AuthorsArmstrong, Janice Gray. joint author.
OrganizationsMuseums at Stony Brook.
LC Card Number80-15105
Call Number/Copies 
 WRHS Research Library: N 6510 P636
mq30010: LC class, closed stacks [status: NON-CIRCULATING]
[Record 22897]