Author: Stephen W. SearsPublisher:
ISBN: 9780828103190
Category :
Languages : en
Pages :
Book Description
The American Heritage Century Collection of Civil War Art
Author: Stephen W. SearsPublisher:
ISBN: 9780828103190
Category :
Languages : en
Pages :
Book Description
The American Heritage Century Collection of Civil War Art
Author: Stephen W. SearsPublisher:
ISBN: 9780828103190
Category : History
Languages : en
Pages : 0
Book Description
Century Collection of Civil War Art
Author: The American Heritage Picture History of The Civil War Art
Author: Battles & Leaders of the Civil War
Author: The American Heritage Century Collection of Civil War Art
Author: Stephen W. SearsPublisher: Random House Value Pub
ISBN: 9780517413609
Category : United States
Languages : en
Pages : 400
Book Description
Brings together contemporary watercolors, tempera paintings, and drawings depicting all campaigns from Sumter to Appomattox
The American Heritage History of Antiques from the Civil War to World War I
Author: Marshall B. DavidsonPublisher:
ISBN:
Category : Antiques & Collectibles
Languages : en
Pages : 424
Book Description
The Arts and Culture of the American Civil War
Author: James A. DavisPublisher: Routledge
ISBN: 1315438232
Category : Music
Languages : en
Pages : 370
Book Description
In 1864, Union soldier Charles George described a charge into battle by General Phil Sheridan: "Such a picture of earnestness and determination I never saw as he showed as he came in sight of the battle field . . . What a scene for a painter!" These words proved prophetic, as Sheridan’s desperate ride provided the subject for numerous paintings and etchings as well as songs and poetry. George was not alone in thinking of art in the midst of combat; the significance of the issues under contention, the brutal intensity of the fighting, and the staggering number of casualties combined to form a tragedy so profound that some could not help but view it through an aesthetic lens, to see the war as a concert of death. It is hardly surprising that art influenced the perception and interpretation of the war given the intrinsic role that the arts played in the lives of antebellum Americans. Nor is it surprising that literature, music, and the visual arts were permanently altered by such an emotional and material catastrophe. In The Arts and Culture of the American Civil War, an interdisciplinary team of scholars explores the way the arts – theatre, music, fiction, poetry, painting, architecture, and dance – were influenced by the war as well as the unique ways that art functioned during and immediately following the war. Included are discussions of familiar topics (such as Ambrose Bierce, Peter Rothermel, and minstrelsy) with less-studied subjects (soldiers and dance, epistolary songs). The collection as a whole sheds light on the role of race, class, and gender in the production and consumption of the arts for soldiers and civilians at this time; it also draws attention to the ways that art shaped – and was shaped by – veterans long after the war.
The Civil War in Books
Author: David J. EicherPublisher: University of Illinois Press
ISBN: 9780252022739
Category : History
Languages : en
Pages : 444
Book Description
With the assistance of several scholars, including James M. McPherson and Gary Gallagher, and a long-time specialist in Civil War books, Ralph Newman, David Eicher has selected for inclusion in The Civil War in Books the 1,100 most important books on the war. These are organized into categories as wide-ranging as "Battles and Campaigns," "Biographies, Memoirs, and Letters," "Unit Histories," and "General Works." The last of these includes volumes on black Americans and the war, battlefields, fiction, pictorial works, politics, prisons, railroads, and a host of other topics. Annotations are included for all entries in the work, which is presented in an oversized 8 1/2 x 11 inch volume in two-column format. Appendixes list "prolific" Civil War publishers and other Civil War bibliographies, and the works included in Eicher's mammoth undertaking are indexed by author or editor and by title. Gary Gallagher's foreword traces the development of Civil War bibliographies and declares that Eicher's annotation exceeds that of any previous comprehensive volume. The Civil War in Books, Gallagher believes, is "precisely the type of guide" that has been needed. The first full-scale, fully-annotated bibliography on the Civil War to appear in more than thirty years, Eicher's The Civil War in Books is a remarkable compendium of the best reading available about the worst conflict ever to strike the United States. The bibliography, the most valuable reference book on the subject since The Civil War Day by Day, will be essential for college and university libraries, dealers in rare and secondhand books, and Civil War buffs.
America Goes to War
Author: Bruce CattonPublisher: Wesleyan University Press
ISBN: 9780819560162
Category : Art
Languages : en
Pages : 132
Book Description
A fascinating study of the first modern war and its effect on American Culture.