[lbo-talk] Memorial Day

[Carl Remick]

>From: "Jerry Monaco" <monacojerry at gmail.com>
>
>Go to any great cometary from the period of the late 19th century to today
>and spend sometime looking at the monuments and you'll see the slightly
>pornographic display of sexualized grief all over place.

Oddly enough, arguably the most famous funerary sculpture of the late 19th 
c. -- Henry Adams' monument to his wife Clover, who committed suicide in 
1885 -- is famed for its androgyny.  The sculpture, by Augustus 
Saint-Gaudens, is titled "The Peace of God or The Mystery of the 
Hereafter...Beyond Pain and Beyond Joy" but is nicknamed "Grief" and is 
ambiguous in every way, not just sexual.  The gravesite contains the bodies 
of both Clover and Henry Adams, but their names are nowhere shown, there are 
no dates displayed, no inscription at all.  Quite a haunting memorial.

<http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Adams_Memorial_(grave_marker)>
<http://www.homestead.com/hereibe/Adams.html>

Carl

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