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Personalized Gravestones: Your Life's Passion For All To See And Hear, Peter A. Maresco, Ahmed U. Zafar

WCBT Faculty Publications

In the past several years, a trend has developed that in an earlier age would have seemed inappropriate and perhaps even morbid; the increased personalization of gravestones (memorials). What makes this trend interesting is the variety of shapes, designs, manufacturing processes, and types of personalization actually appearing on gravestones, including seven-inch LCD (Liquid Crystal Display) screens recessed into the face of memorials. This paper discusses gravestones (memorials) in a religious context. It examines the rapidly developing market for elaborately designed memorials both in their traditional forms, typically vertical and created out of granite with just a name and date of …

Review Of "Russia! Nine Hundred Years Of Masterpieces And Master Collections" By James Billington, Lidia Iovleva, And Robert Rosenblum, Anahit Ter-Stepanian

Art & Design Faculty Publications

Book review by Anahit Ter-Stepanian.

Billington, J., Iovleva, L., & Rosenblum, R. (2005), Russia! Nine Hundred Years of Masterpieces and Master Collections.New York: Solomon R. Guggenheim Museum.

ISBN 9780892073290 (hardcover); 9780892073306 (paperback)

Russia! is the most comprehensive exhibition of Russian art since the end of the Cold War, and it presents an exciting journey through nine centuries of artistic development. The exhibition is the product of a collaboration between the Guggenheim Museum and three museums in Russia: the State Hermitage Museum, the State Russian Museum (both in St. Petersburg), and Moscow’s State Tretyakov Gallery. Private collections, museums, and galleries …

The Shanachie Volume 18, Connecticut Irish-American Historical Society

The Shanachie (CTIAHS)

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