Catalogue

Catalogue
Author: Michigan State Library
Publisher:
Total Pages: 376
Release: 1879
Genre: Library catalogs
ISBN:

The Unfinished Exhibition

The Unfinished Exhibition
Author: Susanna Gold
Publisher: Taylor & Francis
Total Pages: 211
Release: 2016-12-08
Genre: Art
ISBN: 1315453126

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.