The Clover Adams sculpture, which I saw recently at the National Portrait Gallery, is really spooky, all the more horrifying if one has the context (provided for me by the plaque on the wall) that she killed herself by drinking photographic chemicals. Yuck. She really needed the help of the just-released Dr. Jack Kevorkian.
I was thinking pessimistic thoughts today about how long this war can go on. Is there any reason to think that the political will can be developed to end it in the reasonably short term?
--- Carl Remick <carlremick at hotmail.com> wrote:
> >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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