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American Family Memorial Imagery, The Photograph, And The Search For Immortality, Daniel Gyger Snyder
American Family Memorial Imagery, The Photograph, And The Search For Immortality, Daniel Gyger Snyder
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In this dissertation I trace the development of family (as opposed to public) memorial imagery and note the unique contribution of photography. I examine attitudes toward photography during its early years. These attitudes reveal that the medium was uniquely appropriate for the continuation and extension of the tradition of memorial imagery in America.
I suggest that America holds expectations for the Machine and for the power of Science that have at various times (the mid-nineteenth century and today) led some to assume that death is not inevitable and that physical Immortality is possible. From Puritan times, when death was accepted, …
The Art Institute Of Boston Course Catalog (1971-1972), The Art Institute Of Boston
The Art Institute Of Boston Course Catalog (1971-1972), The Art Institute Of Boston
Art Institute of Boston (AIB) Course Catalogs
The Art Institute of Boston maintains, and always has maintained throughout the course of its long history, that the artist holds a unique position of responsibility in his society. Because the weight of his contribution is so widely felt in this age of the expanded media, the artist is expected to be not only innovator, but also arbitrator. The decisions which affect his life and his work influence a wide body of people who look to him for illumination.
Art cannot be taught as a development of certain visual talents separate from a larger awareness of life. The Art Institute …