The civil war in art and memory
"Reflecting on the sesquicentennial of the American Civil War, this notable book brings together a range of media and perspectives that show how the conflict has been recorded and remembered over time. Fifteen essays written by leading scholars in a variety of disciplines explore visual represe...
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| Format: | Conference Proceeding Book |
| Language: | English |
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New Haven, CT
National Gallery of Art
[2016]
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| Edition: | First edition |
| Series: | Studies in the history of art (Washington, D.C.)
81 Studies in the history of art (Washington, D.C.) Symposium papers 58 |
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Table of Contents:
- Preface / Elizabeth Cropper
- Introduction / Kirk Savage
- Home. The freedom to marry for all : painting interracial families during the era of the Civil War / Gwendolyn DuBois Shaw ; Northern vision, southern land : designs for freedom on Hilton Head Island, 1862-1880 / Dana E. Byrd ; "Our sketches are all real, not mere imaginary affairs" : the visualization of the 1863 New York Draft riots / Joshua Brown
- Battlefield. The summer of 1863 : Lincoln and black troops / James Oakes ; The wounded Zouave and the Cyrenian paradigm / Richard J. Powell ; The unknowable dead : the Civil War and the origins of modern commemoration / Kirk Savage ; Photographic remains : Sally Mann at Antietam / Shawn Michelle Smith
- Public space. "To strike terror" : equestrian monuments and southern power / Maurie D. Mcinnis ; "Great Generals and Christian soldiers" : commemorations of Robert E. Lee and Stonewall Jackson in the Civil Rights era / Evie Terrono ; The long shadow of the Civil War / Dell Upton
- Heroism. Consecration and monument : Robert Gould Shaw, the 54th Massachusetts regiment, and the Shaw memorial / Henry J. Duffy ; The problem of racial hierarchy in the Shaw memorial / Charles H. Karelis ; Unknowns : commemorating black women's Civil War heroism / Micki Mcelya ; William James, the memory of glory, and the work of mourning / Robert H. Bell ; The peaceable war memorial / Thomas J. Brown