Remembrance, Faith, and Fancy: Outdoor Public Sculpture in Indiana ; By Glory-June Greiff; 2005; Hardcover; 350 pp; 8.5x11; illustrated; ISBN 0871951800; Item IHS033

In the early 1850s Henry Cross, a stone carver, fashioned three road-marker heads in Brown County, Indiana. The markers, one of which survives today on maps as Stone Head, were the first outdoor public sculptures in the Hoosier State. Through the years, counties throughout the state have continued to add to Cross’s legacy, dotting the landscape with sculptures both realistic and fanciful. Remembrance, Faith, and Fancy: Outdoor Public Sculpture in Indiana examines the more than 1,500 pieces of outdoor sculpture through such broad categories as commemorative, religious, aesthetic, whimsical, and abstract/contemporary.

Table of Contents

• Preface
• Raiders of the Lost Art: A Quest for Outdoor Sculpture in Indiana
• Acknowledgments
• Part One
• Yesterday and Today: An Overview of Outdoor Sculpture in Indiana
• Chapter One
• From Billy Yank to GI Joe: Sculptural Memorials to War and Peace
• Chapter Two
• Movers and Shakers and Monument Makers: Effigies of Heroes and Archetypes
• Chapter Three
• Saints, Angels, and Graven Images: Religious Sculpture
• Chapter Four
• Lions and Santas and Bears, Oh My! Animals, Children, Whimsies, and Oddities
• Chapter Five
• Scales and Sheavers, Fountains and Flowers: Allegorical and Aesthetic Public Sculpture
• Chapter Six
• What Is That Supposed to Be? Public Encounters with Contemporary Sculpture
• Part Two
• Outdoor Sculpture around the State: A County-by-County Odyssey
• Notes
• Bibliography
• Index

About the author

Glory-June Greiff, a native of Hudson Lake in northern Indiana, is among other things, a public historian now based in Indianapolis. She earned a B.S. in Radio-Television from Butler University and holds a master's degree in public history from Indiana University.