Ariane Bankes

We will remember

Art and Memory: New perspectives on memorial art<br /> <em>West Dean, Nr Chichester, until 1 November</em>

issue 16 May 2009

Art and Memory: New perspectives on memorial art
West Dean, Nr Chichester, until 1 November

There are those who haunt ancient churchyards in search of elegant epigraphs or curious carvings on lichened gravestones, but many focus only on what makes a good memorial when forced to do so by bereavement, and the desire to commemorate justly someone we loved.

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