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Description

1. xii, 187 pages : illustrations (some color); 26 cm

Summary

1. Philadelphia's 1876 Centennial Exhibition -- a spectacular international event celebrating one hundred years of American strength, unity, and freedom -- took place in the immediate wake of this trauma of war and the failures of reconstruction as a means to restore power and patriotism in the nation's struggle to rebuild itself. This is the first comprehensive examination of American art at the centennial, it 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 material, author Susanna W. Gold demonstrates how the art galleries and the audiences who visited them addressed the lingering traumas of battle, the uneasy re-unification of North and South, and the persisting racial tensions in the post-Emancipation era. This careful consideration of the visual record exposes the complexities of the war's impact on Americans and clarifies how the Centennial art exhibition affected a nation still finding its direction at a critical moment in its history.

Subject

1. Nationalism and art
2. Art and history
3. Reconstruction (United States : 1865-1877)
4. United States
5. Nationalism and art > United States > History > 19th century
6. 1800-1899
7. Art and history > United States > History > 19th century
8. Centennial Exhibition
9. Centennial Exhibition (1876 : Philadelphia, Pa.)
10. Art, American > 19th century > Themes, motives
11. Art, American > Themes, motives
12. History
13. Reconstruction (U.S. history, 1865-1877)

Genre/Form

1. History.

Call number

1. JQF 17-357

Note

1. "An Ashgate book"-- Cover.

Bibliography (note)

1. Includes bibliographical references and index.

Author

1. Gold, Susanna, author.

Title

1. The unfinished exhibition : visualizing myth, memory, and the shadow of the Civil War in centennial America / Susanna W. Gold.

Publisher

1. Abingdon, Oxon ; New York, NY : Routledge, 2017.

Copyright date

1. ©2017

Type of content

1. text

Type of medium

1. unmediated

Type of carrier

1. volume

Bibliography

1. Includes bibliographical references and index.

Chronological term

1. 1800-1899

LCCN

1. 2016028203

ISBN

1. 9781472480668 hardcover
2. 147248066X hardcover

Research call number

1. JQF 17-357