Data Driven Analysis of Cemeteries and Social Reform in Paris, 1804192 - 192

This book takes a novel, data-driven approach to the cemeteries of Paris, analysing a largely text-based body of archival material as proxy evidence for visual material that has been lost due to systematic, and legally sanctioned, acts of erasure.

List of contents

Preface Introduction 1. After 23 Prairial: Negotiating the Social and Urban Consequences of Cemetery Reform after 1804 2. Marbriers de Paris: The Stonecutting Profession and Its Reputation as a Funerary Profession 3. Bespoke, Ready-Made . . . or Something in Between? 4. Toward a Visual Culture of Permanence Epilogue: Société Le Roy Bouillon

About the author

Kaylee P. Alexander is the ACLS Emerging Voices Postdoctoral Fellow for Digital Matters at the University of Utah.

Summary

This book takes a novel, data-driven approach to the cemeteries of Paris, analysing a largely text-based body of archival material as proxy evidence for visual material that has been lost due to systematic, and legally sanctioned, acts of erasure.

Product details

• Authors: Kaylee P. Alexander, Kaylee P. (University of Utah Alexander
• Publisher: Taylor & Francis Ltd.
• Languages: English
• Product format: Hardback
• Released: 21.08.2023
• EAN: 9781032502090
• ISBN: 978-1-0-3250209-0
• No. of pages: 160
• Series: Routledge Research in Art History
• Subjects: Humanities, art, music > Art > General, dictionaries; Modern history to 20th century: c 1700 to c 1900, France, European History, 20th Century, HISTORY / Social History, HISTORY / Europe / France, Social & cultural history, 20th century history: c 1900 to c 2000, ART / European, ART / History / Modern (late 19th Century to 1945), ART / Sculpture & Installation, sculpture, History of art & design styles: c 1800 to c 1900, c 1800 to c 1900, 19th century, c 1800 to c 1899, History of Art, History of art & design styles: from c 1900 -, Social and cultural history, Early 20th century c 1900 to c 1950, Paris (City), Art & design styles: c 1900 to c 1960