Week 2: March 8
The Civil War in Art and Memory
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Reading #1: David Blight, Chapter 1, "The Dead and the Living," p. 6-30
Overarching question: As Blight sees it, how/why were the dead used as an early form of reconciliation?
Blight, Ch. 1.pdfReading #2: Eleanor Jones Harvey, The Civil War and American Art (New Haven, 2012), “Introduction” (pp. 1-15) and “Aftermath” (pp. 225-41).
To consider while reading: What were the central difficulties artists faced in representing the Civil War?
Harvey introduction.pdfHarvey Afterward.pdfImages from Harvey:
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