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Artificial Intelligence meets Gettysburg. And it is a marvelous
pairing. Author Patrick Brennan, a long-time student of the Civil
War, published author, and an editorial advisor for The Civil War
Monitor magazine, has teamed up with his technology-astute daughter
Dylan Brennan to bring the largest Civil War battle to life in
striking life-like colors in this remarkable two volume study.
Rather than guess or dabble with the colors, as so many do these
days, the Brennans used an artificial intelligence-based
computerized color identifier to determine the precise color of
uniforms, flesh, hair, equipment, terrain, houses, and much more.
The result is a monumental full-color study of the important
three-day battle that brings the men, the landscape, and the action
into the 21st Century. The deep colorization of battle-related
woodcuts, for example, reveals a plethora of details that have long
passed unseen. The photos of the soldiers and their officers look
as if they were taken yesterday. The use of this modern technology
has also solved a couple lingering mysteries. It not only helped
pinpoint the precise location of one of Gettysburg’s most famous
“death” images, but determined that two of the seven
“Union” dead depicted were in fact Confederates. As Pat Brennan
explains, that may also be a “first” when it comes to Civil War
photography: “It was long believed this was an image of seven
dead Union soldiers. In fact, only five are Union men. The other
two are Confederates. I am still researching the issue, but I
believe this may be the only photo we have from the entire Civil
War that portrays dead from both sides.” Gettysburg in Color:
Vol. 1: Brandy Station to Little Round Top and Vol. 2: The Peach
Orchard to Falling Waters, will be out in July 2022 and include
nearly 300 photos, paintings, drawings, and woodcuts colorized
utilizing the latest in color-recognition software, together with
Brennan’s unique digital painting techniques, incredible 3-D
maps, and his own extensive research.
Though primarily known for his haunting, enigmatic novel Pedro
Paramo and the unrelenting depictions of the failures of
post-revolutionary Mexico in his short story collection, El Llano
en llamas, Juan Rulfo also worked as scriptwriter on various
collaborative film projects and his powerful interventions in the
area of documentary photography ensure that he continues to inspire
interest worldwide. Bringing together some of the most significant
names in Rulfian scholarship, this anthology engages with the
complexity and diversity of Rulfo's cultural production. The essays
in the collection bring the Rulfian texts into dialogues with other
cultural traditions and techniques including the Japanese Noh or
"mask" plays and modernist experimentation in the Irish language.
They also deploy diverse theoretical frameworks that range from
Roland Barthes' work on studium and punctum in photography to Henri
Lefebvre's ideas on space and spatiality and the postmodern
insights of Jean Baudrillard on the nature of the simulacrum and
the hyperreal. In this way, innovative approaches are brought to
bear on the Rulfian texts as a way of illuminating the rich
tensions and anxieties they evoke about Mexico, about history,
about art and about the human condition.
Though primarily known for his haunting, enigmatic novel Pedro
Paramo and the unrelenting depictions of the failures of
post-revolutionary Mexico in his short story collection, El Llano
en llamas, Juan Rulfo also worked as scriptwriter on various
collaborative film projects and his powerful interventions in the
area of documentary photography ensure that he continues to inspire
interest worldwide. Bringing together some of the most significant
names in Rulfian scholarship, this anthology engages with the
complexity and diversity of Rulfo's cultural production. The essays
in the collection bring the Rulfian texts into dialogues with other
cultural traditions and techniques including the Japanese Noh or
"mask" plays and modernist experimentation in the Irish language.
They also deploy diverse theoretical frameworks that range from
Roland Barthes' work on studium and punctum in photography to Henri
Lefebvre's ideas on space and spatiality and the postmodern
insights of Jean Baudrillard on the nature of the simulacrum and
the hyperreal. In this way, innovative approaches are brought to
bear on the Rulfian texts as a way of illuminating the rich
tensions and anxieties they evoke about Mexico, about history,
about art and about the human condition.
Deeply attuned to those things that make and unmake us, Dylan
Brennan's Let The Dead concerns itself with life's alchemical
processes. A couple breathe life into a doomed poppet, a
photographer immortalises a corpse, Joyce and Breton rub shoulders
on the streets of the poet's adopted Mexico, where life is a
tapestry of 'delicate anthers' and 'disembodied tongues'. These
dark meditations are set against poems which consider love,
miscarriage, childbirth and the daily miracle of family life.
Beautiful and disturbing by turns, these reflections on Ireland and
Mexico's shared colonial past invoke topographies both real and
imagined, where 'things in the ground have a tendency to grow.' Let
the Dead reminds us of the power of art to shape our perception of
history, and of the artist's responsibility in a time of violence.
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