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The Civil War and American Art

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Description for The Civil War and American Art Hardback. A sweeping survey of the impact of the Civil War on American painting and photography in the 19th century Series: Smithsonian American Art Museum. Num Pages: 352 pages, 177 colour images + 37 black-&-white illustrations. BIC Classification: 1KBB; 3JH; ACV; HBWJ. Category: (G) General (US: Trade). Dimension: 321 x 263 x 37. Weight in Grams: 2584.

A sweeping survey of the impact of the Civil War on American painting and photography in the 19th century

The Civil War redefined America and forever changed American art. 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 ... Read more

This important book looks at the range of artwork created before, during, and following the war, in the years between 1852 and 1877. Author Eleanor Jones Harvey surveys paintings made by some of America's finest artists, including Frederic Church, Sanford Gifford, Winslow Homer, and Eastman Johnson, and photographs taken by George Barnard, Alexander Gardner, and Timothy H. O'Sullivan. 

Harvey examines American landscape and genre painting and the new medium of photography to understand both how artists made sense of the war and how they portrayed what was a deeply painful, complex period in American history. Enriched by firsthand accounts of the war by soldiers, former slaves, abolitionists, and statesmen, Harvey's research demonstrates how these artists used painting and photography to reshape American culture. Alongside the artworks, period voices (notably those of Emily Dickinson, Mark Twain, and Walt Whitman) amplify the anxiety and dilemmas of wartime America. 



Published in association with the Smithsonian American Art Museum


Exhibition Schedule:

Smithsonian American Art Museum11/16/12–04/28/13

The Metropolitan Museum of Art05/21/13–09/02/13

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Product Details

Format
Hardback
Publication date
2012
Publisher
Yale University Press United States
Number of pages
352
Condition
New
Series
Smithsonian American Art Museum
Number of Pages
352
Place of Publication
, United States
ISBN
9780300187335
SKU
V9780300187335
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Ref
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About Eleanor Jones Harvey
Eleanor Jones Harvey is senior curator at the Smithsonian American Art Museum. Her books include The Voyage of the Icebergs: Frederic Church's Arctic Masterpiece (Yale) and The Painted Sketch: American Impressions from Nature, 1830–1880.

Reviews for The Civil War and American Art
“The Civil War and American Art is a scholarly and a narrative achievement both harrowing and sublime. Eleanor Jones Harvey has written a keenly critical and often lyrical assessment of the war she calls all but “unpaintable.” In genre painting that captured universal meanings out of local episodes in the ugly ironies of war, and especially in the new moods, metaphors, and ... Read more

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