Mine Eyes Have Seen the Glory by Holzer

Description: Holzer, Harold & Mark E. Neely, Jr. MINE EYES HAVE SEEN THE GLORY: THE CIVIL WAR IN ART. NY, 1993, 336pp, 9 1/2" X 11 1/2", color photos, notes, index, dust jacket. BRAND NEW! NEVER READ! "Pulitzer Prize-winning historian Mark E. Neely, Jr., and Harold Holzer, the nation's leading expert on Civil War-era images, teamed up to produce this stunning and definitive look at the best and most important artworks from the Civil War....Authors Holzer and Neely combed more than 250 museums, historical societies, and private collections throughout the United States in an effort to cull the best and rarest of Civil War art. The result is this beautiful, full color collection of some 280 artworks.". (ISBN: 0-517-58448-4) BRAND NEW! NEVER READ! In a time when the nation was divided over the issue of slavery, artists helped to shape people’s understandings of the conflict that overtook the nation. Some artists depicted the political figures and events that drove and reflected the conflict. Other artists were on the battlefield itself, bringing the emotional toll of war home in immediate ways. Mathew Brady, a prominent photographer of the era, photographed Lincoln after he won the Republican nomination for president, and his image was published on the cover of the widely popular magazine Harper’s Weekly. A printed reproduction of it (a lithograph) was sold by the thousands by the printmakers Currier and Ives and featured on campaign material. Brady believed his image had a significant influence on Lincoln’s winning the election. Artist Winslow Homer, who had been chosen to illustrate President Lincoln’s inaugural address for Harper’s Weekly in 1861, later traveled with Union soldiers to the battlefields, studying camp life and translating those experiences through his painting. His focus on the common soldier humanized the conflict and made its effects that much more tangible. Download: Civil War and Its Aftermath Image Set (18.2MB) Explore: Classroom activities related to Civil War and Its Aftermath Photographers saw an opportunity in the war and traveled to the front with all their supplies in order to capture views that would be virtually guaranteed to find a large market in both the public and the press. The Civil War was the first American war to be documented by photography, and the images produced by the major photography studios were the public’s first exposure to seeing dead soldiers, making clear the cost of war. Some viewers considered them unmediated and the only true records of the war that could be relied upon. The artists, however, chose their subjects and carefully composed their photographs, likely altering scenes from their original state to make a more powerful photo.

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