{"product_id":"art-during-wartime-painting-everyday-life-in-the-civil-war-north-paperback-softback-9781625348012","title":"Art During Wartime; Painting Everyday Life in the Civil War North (Paperback \/ softback) 9781625348012","description":"\u003cfont face=\"Georgia\"\u003e\r\n\u003cp\u003e\u003cfont size=\"6\"\u003eArt During Wartime\u003c\/font\u003e\u003cbr\u003e\r\n\u003cfont size=\"5\"\u003ePainting Everyday Life in the Civil War North\u003c\/font\u003e\u003c\/p\u003e\r\n\r\n\r\n\r\n\r\n\u003cp\u003e\u003cfont size=\"4\"\u003eVanessa Meikle Schulman (Author)\u003c\/font\u003e\u003c\/p\u003e\r\n\r\n\u003cp\u003e\u003cfont size=\"3\"\u003e9781625348012\u003c\/font\u003e\u003c\/p\u003e\r\n\r\n\u003cp\u003e\u003cfont size=\"3\"\u003ePaperback \/ softback, published 26 August 2024\u003c\/font\u003e\u003c\/p\u003e\r\n\r\n\u003cp\u003e\u003cfont size=\"3\"\u003e312 pages, 55 illus.\u003cbr\u003e22.9 x 15.2 x 2.2 cm, 0.41 kg\u003c\/font\u003e\u003c\/p\u003e\r\n\r\n\r\n\r\n\u003cp align=\"justify\"\u003e\u003cem\u003e\u003cfont size=\"3\"\u003e\u003cp\u003e “Schulman makes a compelling argument that Civil War genre paintings absorbed, reflected, and shaped broader concerns around gender, race, and disability. \u003ci\u003eArt during Wartime\u003c\/i\u003e is a brilliant addition to the scholarship on painting in nineteenth-century America.”—Jochen Wierich, author of \u003ci\u003eGrand Themes: Emanuel Leutze,\u003c\/i\u003e Washington Crossing the Delaware, \u003ci\u003eand American History Painting\u003c\/i\u003e\u003c\/p\u003e\n\u003cp\u003e “Few scholars of American art have tackled artistic representations of the Civil War, and Schulman is impressively thorough in surveying the field. \u003ci\u003eArt during Wartime\u003c\/i\u003e is an essential contribution to American art history.”—Patricia Johnston, editor of \u003ci\u003eSeeing High and Low: Representing Social Conflict in American Visual Culture\u003c\/i\u003e\u003c\/p\u003e\u003c\/font\u003e\u003c\/em\u003e\u003c\/p\u003e\r\n\r\n\u003cp align=\"justify\"\u003e\u003cstrong\u003e\u003cfont size=\"3\"\u003eWhile the Civil War raged on, many northern artists depicted everyday life rather than grand battles or landscapes of noble sacrifice. Amidst a conflict that was upending antebellum social norms, these artists created realistic scenes of mundane events, known as genre paintings. While many of the paintings seem merely to show everyday incidents, Vanessa Meikle Schulman argues that artists connected the visuals to larger concerns. \u003c\/font\u003e\u003c\/strong\u003e\u003c\/p\u003e\n\u003cp\u003e With attention to how the war shaped new definitions of gender, race, and disability, \u003ci\u003eArt during Wartime\u003c\/i\u003e uncovers the complexity of these genre paintings. Schulman uses seven case studies of prominent and lesser-known artists who explored how the war instigated social change and shaped northern opinions about current events, including George Cochran Lambdin, Vincent Colyer, and Eastman Johnson. Utilizing detailed visual analysis and extensive historical research, \u003ci\u003eArt during Wartime\u003c\/i\u003e reframes our narrative of Civil War visual culture, placing genre painting in a central ideological role.\u003c\/p\u003e\u003c\/font\u003e\r\n\r\n\r\n\r\n\r\n\r\n\r\n","brand":"University of Massachusetts Press","offers":[{"title":"Brand New","offer_id":52633036521752,"sku":"9781625348012","price":22.96,"currency_code":"GBP","in_stock":true}],"url":"https:\/\/freshlyprintedbooks.co.uk\/products\/art-during-wartime-painting-everyday-life-in-the-civil-war-north-paperback-softback-9781625348012","provider":"Freshly Printed Books","version":"1.0","type":"link"}