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A highly readable book which chronicles the fascinating and at time bizarre events that occurred from the date of Oscar Wilde's death to the unveiling of his infamous monument, carved by the equally infamous sculptor, Jacob Epstein, in Pere Lachaise cemetery in Paris, and the monument's subsequent lamentable state in more recent decades.
Michael Pennington in his short and very readable book provides the background to the realization of Epstein's tomb monument to Oscar Wilde in the Pere Lachaise Cemetery in Paris. He also pieces together a fascinating jigsaw of events which led to its completion; these range from the death of Wilde in 1900 through the disarray of his estate ... to the commissioning of the monument to be executed by Epstein ... most controversial sculptor of the day.
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Exhibitions, Modern Sculpture, Sculptors, Sculpture, ModernPlaces
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An angel for a martyr: Jacob Epstein's tomb for Oscar Wilde
1987, Whiteknights
in English
0704901137 9780704901131
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"On the 30th November 1900 at two o'clock in the afternoon Oscar Wilde died of an infection to his inner ear with the added complication of cerebral meningitis."
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Includes index.
This text belongs to the series selected by the department of English in the Universtity of Reading. Each volume is designed by one or more students of the department of Typography & Graphic Communication in the University.
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"On the 30th November 1900 at two o'clock in the afternoon Oscar Wilde died of an infection to his inner ear with the added complication of cerebral meningitis."
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