Author: City Art Museum of St. LouisPublisher:
ISBN:
Category : Art
Languages : en
Pages : 250
Book Description
Mississippi Panorama
Author: City Art Museum of St. LouisPublisher:
ISBN:
Category : Art
Languages : en
Pages : 250
Book Description
River of Dreams
Author: Thomas Ruys SmithPublisher: LSU Press
ISBN: 0807143073
Category : History
Languages : en
Pages : 255
Book Description
Even in the decades before Mark Twain enthralled the world with his evocative representations of the Mississippi, the river played an essential role in American culture and consciousness. Throughout the antebellum era, the Mississippi acted as a powerful symbol of America's conception of itself -- and the world's conception of America. As Twain understood, "The Mississippi is well worth reading about." Thomas Ruys Smith's River of Dreams is an examination of the Mississippi's role in the antebellum imagination, exploring its cultural position in literature, art, thought, and national life. Presidents, politicians, authors, poets, painters, and international celebrities of every variety experienced the Mississippi in its Golden Age. They left an extraordinary collection of representations of the river in their wake, images that evolved as America itself changed. From Thomas Jefferson's vision for the Mississippi to Andrew Jackson and the rowdy river culture of the early nineteenth century, Smith charts the Mississippi's shifting importance in the making of the nation. He examines the accounts of European travelers, including Frances Trollope, Charles Dickens, and William Makepeace Thackeray, whose views of the river were heavily influenced by the world of the steamboat and plantation slavery. Smith discusses the growing importance of visual representations of the Mississippi as the antebellum period progressed, exploring the ways in which views of the river, particularly giant moving panoramas that toured the world, echoed notions of manifest destiny and the westward movement. He evokes the river in the late antebellum years as a place of crime and mystery, especially in popular writing, and most notably in Herman Melville's The Confidence-Man. An epilogue discusses the Mississippi during the Civil War, when possession of the river became vital, symbolically as well as militarily. The epilogue also provides an introduction to Mark Twain, a product of the antebellum river world who was to resurrect its imaginative potential for a post-war nation and produce an iconic Mississippi that still flows through a wide and fertile floodplain in American literature. From empire building in the Louisiana Purchase to the trauma of the Civil War, the Mississippi's dominant symbolic meanings tracked the essential forces operating within the nation. As Smith shows in this groundbreaking work, the story of the imagined Mississippi River is the story of antebellum America itself.
The Lost Panoramas of the Mississippi
Author: John Francis McDermottPublisher:
ISBN:
Category : Mississippi River
Languages : en
Pages : 240
Book Description
"The panorama was a ... newsreel travelogue documentary 'movie' all rolled into one long, long, pictorial canvas between two slowly revolving cylinders ... [to the] acccompaniment of explanatory narration by the panoramist, passed the great river, its banks and bluffs, its steamers and squatters' shacks, its hamlets and cities, from St. Paul to New Orleans." Dust jacket.
Mississippi Panorama
Author: City Art Museum of St. LouisPublisher:
ISBN:
Category : Art, American
Languages : en
Pages : 252
Book Description
The Panorama
Author: Bernard CommentPublisher: Reaktion Books
ISBN: 9781861891235
Category : Architecture
Languages : en
Pages : 282
Book Description
In this book, Bernard Comment examines the wide variety of panoramas featuring both the old and the new worlds. Included among views of cities are Robert Baker's View of Edinburgh and depictions of Paris, Moscow and Lima.
Mississippi Panorama
Author: Saint Louis Art Museum (Saint Louis)Publisher:
ISBN:
Category : Art, American
Languages : en
Pages : 226
Book Description
Description of Banvard's Panorama of the Mississippi River
Author: John BanvardPublisher: Wyatt North Publishing, LLC
ISBN: 1647981972
Category : History
Languages : en
Pages : 57
Book Description
John Banvard (1815 - 1891) was a famous American painter. He is best known for his panoramic views of the Mississippi River Valley. The description of his panorama was first published in 1847.
Mississippi Panorama
Author: Description of Banvard's Panorama of the Mississippi, Missouri and Ohio Rivers, etc
Author: John BANVARDMississippi River Panorama
Author: William John PetersenPublisher:
ISBN:
Category : Illinois
Languages : en
Pages : 202
Book Description