Art during wartime : painting everyday life in the Civil War North / Vanessa Meikle Schulman.

Art during wartime : painting everyday life in the Civil War North / Vanessa Meikle Schulman.

9781685750749 electronic book
1685750745 electronic book
9781625348012 paperback
9781625348029 hardcover

Amherst : University of Massachusetts Press, [2024]

English

1 online resource (xiii, 271 pages) : illustrations

ND1451.5 .S38 2024

754.0973/09034

"While the Civil War raged on, many northern artists depicted everyday life rather than grand battles or landscapes of noble sacrifice. Amidst a conflict that was upending antebellum social norms, these artists created realistic scenes of mundane events, known as genre paintings. While many of the paintings seem merely to show everyday incidents, Vanessa Meikle Schulman argues that artists connected the visuals to larger concerns. With attention to how the war shaped new definitions of gender, race, and disability, Art during Wartime uncovers the complexity of these genre paintings. Schulman uses seven case studies of prominent and lesser-known artists who explored how the war instigated social change and shaped northern opinions about current events, including George Cochran Lambdin, Vincent Colyer, and Eastman Johnson. Utilizing detailed visual analysis and extensive historical research, Art during Wartime reframes our narrative of Civil War visual culture, placing genre painting in a central ideological role"-- Provided by publisher.

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