Episode 120: De-Fine Art: Italian Sculpture, Angel Symbolism, Consolation Literature, and Academic Cemetery Stigma with Beth Roark, Art Historian

Tomb With A View: A Cemetery Podcast

English - May 03, 2022 02:00 - 49 minutes - 33.7 MB - ★★★★★ - 21 ratings
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Is cemetery sculpture art? Who decides? and where does it fall in the spectrum of art history?

Beth Roark is a professor of art history at Chatham University in Pittsburgh, PA and today we discuss what it is like to be a cemetery scholar.

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