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The Civil War and American art
- Title
- The Civil War and American art / Eleanor Jones Harvey.
- Author
- Harvey, Eleanor Jones.
- Publication
- Washington, D.C. : Smithsonian American Art Museum ; New Haven, Conn. : in association with Yale University Press, 2012.
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- Description
- xvii, 316 pages : illustrations (chiefly color); 33 cm
- Summary
- "The American Civil War was arguably the first modern war. Its grim reality, captured through the new medium of photography, was laid bare. American artists could not approach the conflict with the conventions of European history painting, which glamorized the hero on the battlefield. Instead, many artists found ways to weave the war into works of art that considered the human narrative--the daily experiences of soldiers, slaves, and families left behind. Artists and writers wrestled with the ambiguity and anxiety of the Civil War and used landscape imagery to give voice to their misgivings as well as their hopes for themselves and the nation.This important book looks at the range of artwork created before, during, and following the war, in the years between 1859 and 1876. Author Eleanor Jones Harvey examines the implications of the war on landscape and genre painting, history painting, and photography, as represented in some of the greatest masterpieces of 19th-century American art. The book features extensive quotations from men and women alive during the war years, alongside text by literary figures including Emily Dickinson, Mark Twain, and Walt Whitman, among many others"--
- Subjects
- Note
- Published in conjunction with the exhibition of the same name, on view at the Smithsonian American Art Museum in Washington, D.C., from November 16, 2012 through April 28, 2013, and at the Metropolitan Museum of Art, New York City, from May 21-September 2, 2013.
- Bibliography (note)
- Includes bibliography (pages [274]-293) and index.
- Call Number
- JQG 13-323
- ISBN
- 9780300187335 (hardback)
- 9780937311981 (soft cover)
- 0937311987 (soft cover)
- LCCN
- 2012029342
- OCLC
- 785864562
- Author
- Harvey, Eleanor Jones.
- Title
- The Civil War and American art / Eleanor Jones Harvey.
- Imprint
- Washington, D.C. : Smithsonian American Art Museum ; New Haven, Conn. : in association with Yale University Press, 2012.
- Type of Content
- text
- Type of Medium
- unmediated
- Type of Carrier
- volume
- Bibliography
- Includes bibliography (pages [274]-293) and index.
- Added Author
- Smithsonian American Art Museum.Metropolitan Museum of Art (New York, N.Y.)
- Research Call Number
- JQG 13-323