The Civil War and American art

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The work The Civil War and American art represents a distinct intellectual or artistic creation found in Waubonsee Community College. This resource is a combination of several types including: Work, Language Material, Books.

Label

The Civil War and American art

Statement of responsibility

Eleanor Jones Harvey

Creator

• Harvey, Eleanor Jones

Contributor

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

Subject

• ART -- American | General
• ART -- Collections, Catalogs, Exhibitions | General
• ART -- History | Modern (late 19th Century to 1945)
• American Civil War (1861-1865)
• Art and society
• Art and society -- United States -- History -- 19th century -- Exhibitions
• Art, American -- 19th century -- Themes, motives -- Exhibitions
• Art, American -- Themes, motives
• Exhibition catalogs
• HISTORY -- United States -- 19th Century
• HISTORY -- United States -- Civil War Period (1850-1877)
• History
• 1800-1899
• Malerei
• Sezessionskrieg
• USA
• United States
• United States -- History -- Civil War, 1861-1865 -- Art and the war | Exhibitions
• Kunst

Genre

• Exhibition catalogs
• Exhibitions
• History
• Art and the war

Language

eng

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"--

Assigning source

Provided by publisher

Cataloging source

DLC

Dewey number

740.973/074753

Government publication

federal national government publication

Illustrations

illustrations

Index

index present

LC call number

N6510

LC item number

.H37 2012

Literary form

non fiction

Nature of contents

• bibliography
• catalogs