{"id":1752,"date":"2009-11-23T08:29:02","date_gmt":"2009-11-23T16:29:02","guid":{"rendered":"http:\/\/www.artsjournal.com\/herman\/wp\/2009\/11\/alone_at_last\/"},"modified":"2016-03-22T11:24:35","modified_gmt":"2016-03-22T15:24:35","slug":"alone_at_last","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/www.artsjournal.com\/herman\/2009\/11\/alone_at_last.html","title":{"rendered":"The Best Epitaph of Them All"},"content":{"rendered":"<p><a href=\"http:\/\/www.artsjournal.com\/herman\/armanheadstone.jpg\"><img loading=\"lazy\" decoding=\"async\" alt title=\"'Alone at last!' -- Arman's headstone at P&#232;re-Lachaise cemetery in Paris. [Photo: JH]\" src=\"http:\/\/www.artsjournal.com\/herman\/assets_c\/2009\/11\/armanheadstone-thumb-320x426-11611.jpg\" width=\"320\" height=\"426\" class=\"mt-image-left\" style=\"float: left; margin: 0 20px 20px 0;\" \/><\/a><a href=\"http:\/\/en.wikipedia.org\/wiki\/P%C3%A8re_Lachaise_Cemetery#A\">So many immortals<\/a> are buried at the <a href=\"http:\/\/en.wikipedia.org\/wiki\/P%C3%A8re_Lachaise_Cemetery\">Cimeti&#232;re du P&#232;re-Lachaise<\/a> in Paris &#8212; Balzac, Moli&#232;re, Oscar Wilde, Proust, Max Ernst, for starters &#8212;  that the witty artist <a href=\"http:\/\/www.armanstudio.com\/\">Arman<\/a> must rank among them as a mere mortal. But his stylish, minimalist headstone has the best epitaph of all of them. (&#8220;Alone at last!&#8221;) I saw it while hiking with a map through the vast, wooded burial ground looking for <a href=\"http:\/\/upload.wikimedia.org\/wikipedia\/en\/5\/54\/Chopin.grave.Paris.JPG\">Chopin&#8217;s gravesite<\/a>. A large crowd surrounded the composer&#8217;s tomb, snapping what must have been hundreds of pictures. Nobody that I saw noticed Arman&#8217;s nearby &#8230; much less stooped to take a photo. Their loss.<\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>So many immortals are buried at the Cimeti&#232;re du P&#232;re-Lachaise in Paris &#8212; Balzac, Moli&#232;re, Oscar Wilde, Proust, Max Ernst, for starters &#8212; that the witty artist Arman must rank among them as a mere mortal. But his stylish, minimalist headstone has the best epitaph of all of them. (&#8220;Alone at last!&#8221;) I saw it [&hellip;]<\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":3,"featured_media":0,"comment_status":"open","ping_status":"open","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"_genesis_hide_title":false,"_genesis_hide_breadcrumbs":false,"_genesis_hide_singular_image":false,"_genesis_hide_footer_widgets":false,"_genesis_custom_body_class":"","_genesis_custom_post_class":"","_genesis_layout":"","jetpack_post_was_ever_published":false,"_jetpack_newsletter_access":"","_jetpack_dont_email_post_to_subs":false,"_jetpack_newsletter_tier_id":0,"_jetpack_memberships_contains_paywalled_content":false,"_jetpack_memberships_contains_paid_content":false,"footnotes":"","jetpack_publicize_message":"","jetpack_publicize_feature_enabled":true,"jetpack_social_post_already_shared":false,"jetpack_social_options":{"image_generator_settings":{"template":"highway","default_image_id":0,"font":"","enabled":false},"version":2}},"categories":[1],"tags":[],"class_list":{"0":"post-1752","1":"post","2":"type-post","3":"status-publish","4":"format-standard","6":"category-uncategorized","7":"entry"},"jetpack_publicize_connections":[],"jetpack_featured_media_url":"","jetpack_shortlink":"https:\/\/wp.me\/pbvgEs-sg","jetpack_sharing_enabled":true,"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.artsjournal.com\/herman\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/1752","targetHints":{"allow":["GET"]}}],"collection":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.artsjournal.com\/herman\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts"}],"about":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.artsjournal.com\/herman\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/types\/post"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.artsjournal.com\/herman\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/users\/3"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.artsjournal.com\/herman\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/comments?post=1752"}],"version-history":[{"count":1,"href":"https:\/\/www.artsjournal.com\/herman\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/1752\/revisions"}],"predecessor-version":[{"id":20806,"href":"https:\/\/www.artsjournal.com\/herman\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/1752\/revisions\/20806"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.artsjournal.com\/herman\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=1752"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.artsjournal.com\/herman\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=1752"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.artsjournal.com\/herman\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=1752"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}