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TitlePlayground in a cemetery

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Creator name (description)Photograph taken by Aaron Sachs in 2010

Creator nationality/cultureAmerican

Creator roleArchitect

Object typeArchitecture

LocationNewburgh, New York

SubjectsPlaygroundsCemeteries--United States--History

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Epilogue: American Gothic; Or, Death by Landscape

Aaron Sachs

Arcadian America: The Death and Life of an Environmental Tradition

In the course of the nineteenth century bourgeois society has, by means of hygienic and social, private and public institutions, realized a secondary effect which may have been its subconscious main purpose: to make it possible for people to avoid the sight of the dying. Dying was once a public process in the life of the individual, and a most exemplary one; think...

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Aaron Sachs

PublisherYale University Press

Related print edition pages: pp.347-368

Stable URL: https://aaeportal.com/?id=-23878&redirecttoanchor=103697

Chapter subject tags:Cemeteries--United States--History--20th centuryEnvironmentalism--United States--History--20th centuryHorticulture--HistoryMumford, Lewis, 1895-1990Wood, Grant, 1891-1942. American Gothic

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