Unfinished Exhibition - Visualizing Myth, Memory, Shadow of Civil War in Centennial America

List of contents

Chapter 1: The Centennial Memoryscape

Chapter 2: The Civil War Revisited

Chapter 3: Battling Gettysburg

Chapter 4: The Emancipationist Civil War

Chapter 5: The African American Claim to the Centennial

Conclusion: Twenty-First-Century Memory

About the author

Susanna W. Gold is an independent historian and curator of 19th- and 20th-century American art and culture. She has taught at Temple University, the Barnes Foundation, and the University of Pennsylvania, where she earned her Ph.D. She has organized and written catalogs for a number of exhibitions in Philadelphia-area institutions.

Summary

The Unfinished Exhibition, the first comprehensive examination of American art at the Centennial, explains the critical role of visual culture in negotiating memories of the nation’s past that conflicted with the optimism that Exhibition officials promoted. Supporting novel iconographical interpretations with myriad primary source materia

Product details

• Authors: Susanna W. Gold, Gold Susanna W.
• Publisher: Taylor & Francis Ltd.
• Languages: English
• Product format: Paperback / Softback
• Released: 31.03.2021
• EAN: 9780367787257
• ISBN: 978-0-367-78725-7
• No. of pages: 188
• Subjects: Humanities, art, music > Art > Art history; ART / History / General, HISTORY / Modern / 19th Century, HISTORY / United States / Civil War Period (1850-1877), ART / American / General, ART / Collections, Catalogs, Exhibitions / General, History of art & design styles: c 1800 to c 1900, 19th century, c 1800 to c 1899, History of Art, Exhibition catalogues & specific collections, United States of America, USA, Exhibition catalogues and specific collections, The arts: general topics, ART / History / European / Romanticism