Research Catalog

Title

Panthéon de la Guerre : reconfiguring a panorama of the Great War / Mark Levitch.

Author

Levitch, Mark, 1964-

Publication

Columbia : University of Missouri Press ; Kansas City, Mo. : National World War I Museum, c2006.

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Details

Description

xiii, 208 p. : ill. (some col.), map; 19 x 27 cm.

Summary

"Assesses the changing values attached to the Panthéon de la Guerre, a propagandist panorama featuring 5,000 full-length portraits of prominent figures from WWI, during its journey from Great War Paris to cold war Kansas City's Liberty Memorial. Examines its reconfiguration there and the dispersion of fragments into international art markets"--Provided by publisher.

Subject

• Panthéon de la Guerre
• Panoramas > France
• Nationalism in art
• World War, 1914-1918 > Portraits

Bibliography (note)

• Includes bibliographical references (p. 191-197) and index.

Contents

Wartime realization: Paris, 1914-1918 -- Content and composition: 1914-1918 -- French reception: 1918-1927 -- Interwar U.S. road trip: 1927-1940 -- Kansas City and fragmentation: 1952-present -- Conclusion: inadvertent modernism? -- Appendix 1: chronology of the Panthéon de la Guerre -- Appendix 2: the Panthéon's artists.

Call Number

JQF 07-617

ISBN

• 0826216781 (hardcover : alk. paper)
• 9780826216786 (hardcover : alk. paper)

LCCN

2006013557

OCLC

68192351

Author

Levitch, Mark, 1964-

Title

Panthéon de la Guerre : reconfiguring a panorama of the Great War / Mark Levitch.

Imprint

Columbia : University of Missouri Press ; Kansas City, Mo. : National World War I Museum, c2006.

Bibliography

Includes bibliographical references (p. 191-197) and index.

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Research Call Number

JQF 07-617