Silent city on a hill : landscapes of memory and Boston's Mount Auburn Cemetery / Blanche Linden-Ward.

Main entry:

Linden, Blanche M. G., 1946-

Title & Author:

Silent city on a hill : landscapes of memory and Boston's Mount Auburn Cemetery / Blanche Linden-Ward.

Publication:

Description:

xi, 403 pages : illustrations ; 29 cm.

Series:

Urban life and urban landscape series

Notes:
Includes bibliographical references (pages 375-391) and index.
Grim graveyards and common pits: death banal, the past forgotten -- English gardens: models of melancholy, nature, and design -- The French cult of ancestors and Père Lachaise Cemetery -- The necessity for monuments: art and public commemoration in the young republic -- An American sensibility to melancholy -- Grave problems in Boston : the burial controversy of 1823 -- The cemetery idea and founding of Mount Auburn -- Cemetery and garden : landscape design and conflicting institutional purposes -- Art and nature balanced: a marble history in the forest cemetery -- Embellishing the picturesque: structures in the landscape and elements of style -- The rage for Mount Auburn: sacred site or pleasure ground

ISBN:

0814204694 (alk. paper)
9780814204696 (alk. paper)

Subject:

Mount Auburn Cemetery (Cambridge, Mass.)
Mount Auburn Cemetery (Boston, Massachusetts)
Cemeteries Landscape architecture Massachusetts Cambridge.
Cemeteries Landscape architecture Massachusetts Watertown.
Cimetières Architecture du paysage Massachusetts Watertown.
Cimetières Architecture du paysage Massachusetts Cambridge.
Buildings
Cemeteries Landscape architecture
Cambridge (Mass.) Buildings, structures, etc.
Cambridge (Mass.) Constructions.
Watertown (Mass.) Constructions.
Mount Auburn Cemetery (Watertown et Cambridge, Mass.)
Massachusetts Cambridge
Massachusetts Watertown
United States, Massachusetts, Suffolk, Boston Cemeteries.
United States, Massachusetts, Suffolk, Boston Dwellings.
United States Cemeteries, history

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Urban life and urban landscape series.

Holdings:

Location: Library main 188263
Call No.: ID:90-B394
Status: Available

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