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The Unfinished Exhibition - Visualizing Myth, Memory, and the Shadow of the Civil War in Centennial America (Hardcover)
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The Unfinished Exhibition - Visualizing Myth, Memory, and the Shadow of the Civil War in Centennial America (Hardcover)
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The Centennial decade was an era of ambivalence, the United States
still unresolved about the incomprehensible damage it had wrought
over four years of Civil War, and why. 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. The
Unfinished Exhibition, the first comprehensive examination of
American art at the Centennial, 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.
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