The American Civil War revolutionised visual culture. From 1861 to 1865, soldiers seized upon pictures as new forms of self-expression. Yet, engagement with war imagery presented both an opportunity and a dilemma. At the outset of the conflict, conventional modes of the pictorial representation of conflict were orientated towards a romantic image of war as a heroic cause. Such conventions remained powerful, but over the conflict’s course, some soldiers began to abandon these conventions, and sought new ways of representing the experience of war; others, meanwhile, continued to fortify older traditions. As soldiers faced their foes in battle, they entered a cultural contest over the war’s representation with professional picture-makers and t...
World War I was one of the first wars to be extensively photographed. What was done with these photo...
The Battle of Atlanta Cyclorama creates a digestible spatial reality for viewers to confront the hor...
Deborah Willis presents “the handsomest picture book,” as well as an “elegantly hybrid” and nuanced ...
Popular artwork during the era of the Civil war can be placed into three broad categories. The first...
For my project, I analyzed the Harper’s Weekly illustrations and reproductions of photographs during...
Founded in 1862 just after the onset of the Civil War, the Army Medical Museum would become the nat...
Throughout the American Civil War, northern photographers, many of whom were officially attached to ...
This project traces specific patterns of representation in the American art contributions to the 187...
This paper will argue that photography was a key factor in determining the outcome of the American C...
The American Civil War was one of, if not the single greatest defining moment in United States histo...
A look at Landscape, and the Romanticism of battle, during the American Civil War This paper aimed t...
The story of the American Civil War is usually told though a chronological framework and the author ...
The vicissitudes in the post-Civil War period of images made of the conflict tell us a great deal ab...
Images depict military personnel and facilities, primarily from a Union perspective. Includes the ma...
Recently we have seen an explosion of tools in which visual images may be manipulated. Digital camer...
World War I was one of the first wars to be extensively photographed. What was done with these photo...
The Battle of Atlanta Cyclorama creates a digestible spatial reality for viewers to confront the hor...
Deborah Willis presents “the handsomest picture book,” as well as an “elegantly hybrid” and nuanced ...
Popular artwork during the era of the Civil war can be placed into three broad categories. The first...
For my project, I analyzed the Harper’s Weekly illustrations and reproductions of photographs during...
Founded in 1862 just after the onset of the Civil War, the Army Medical Museum would become the nat...
Throughout the American Civil War, northern photographers, many of whom were officially attached to ...
This project traces specific patterns of representation in the American art contributions to the 187...
This paper will argue that photography was a key factor in determining the outcome of the American C...
The American Civil War was one of, if not the single greatest defining moment in United States histo...
A look at Landscape, and the Romanticism of battle, during the American Civil War This paper aimed t...
The story of the American Civil War is usually told though a chronological framework and the author ...
The vicissitudes in the post-Civil War period of images made of the conflict tell us a great deal ab...
Images depict military personnel and facilities, primarily from a Union perspective. Includes the ma...
Recently we have seen an explosion of tools in which visual images may be manipulated. Digital camer...
World War I was one of the first wars to be extensively photographed. What was done with these photo...
The Battle of Atlanta Cyclorama creates a digestible spatial reality for viewers to confront the hor...
Deborah Willis presents “the handsomest picture book,” as well as an “elegantly hybrid” and nuanced ...