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  Title

  The Civil War and American art

  Author

  Harvey, Eleanor Jones.  

  Publisher:

  Smithsonian American Art Museum ;

  Pub date:

  [2012]

  Pages:

  xvii, 316 pages :

  ISBN:

  9780300187335

  Item info:

  1 copy available at Sugar Grove Campus --Todd Library.
  

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    Sugar Grove Campus --Todd Library	Copies	Material	Location	Map
    N6510 .H37 2012	1	Book	Available, On shelf

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  ISBN:

  9780300187335 (hardback)

  ISBN:

  0300187335 (hardback)

  ISBN:

  9780937311981 (soft cover)

  ISBN:

  0937311987 (soft cover)

  029:

  DEBSZ 376044519

  029:

  AU@ 000050492924

  029:

  UNITY 127671536

  029:

  UKNFK 0300187335

  Personal Author:

  Harvey, Eleanor Jones.

  Title:

  The Civil War and American art / Eleanor Jones Harvey.

  Physical description:

  xvii, 316 pages : illustrations ; 33 cm

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  General 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.

  Contents:

  Landscapes and the metaphorical war -- The art of wartime photography -- The human face of war -- Abolition and emancipation.

  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"-- Provided by publisher.

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  Subject term:

  Art, American--19th century--Themes, motives--Exhibitions.

  Subject term:

  Art and society--United States--History--19th century--Exhibitions.

  Geographic term:

  United States--History--Civil War, 1861-1865--Art and the war--Exhibitions.

  Added Entry-Corporate Name:

  Smithsonian American Art Museum.

  Added Entry-Corporate Name:

  Metropolitan Museum of Art (New York, N.Y.)

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