Description
Based on an exhibition of the same name, this substantial book interweaves the art, the poetry, and the political history of a crucial decade in Americas past – the 1860s. Written by Kevin Sharp, curator of the exhibition, the book covers Walt Whitmans years of caring for the wounded in Washington military hospitals and includes heartfelt poems he wrote about this experience. Landscapes of the Hudson River School add to the books many colorful illustrations of paintings, historical photographs, prints, cartoons, and sculpture. A selection of Winslow Homers paintings, as well as etchings for Harpers Weekly, depict the human side of the Civil War. Sensitive paintings and photographs show Abraham Lincoln through the years, as he takes on the ever increasing burdens of the Presidency. Among the many artists represented are genre painters Eastman Johnson, Enoch Perry Wood, William D. Washington, Thomas Waterman Wood, and Thomas Satterwhite Noble.
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