The Civil War and American Art
- ISBN-10
- 0300187335
- ISBN-13
- 9780300187335
- Category
- Art
- Pages
- 316
- Language
- English
- Published
- 2012-12-03
- Publisher
- Yale University Press
- Authors
- Smithsonian American Art Museum, Eleanor Jones Harvey
Description
Collects the best artwork created before, during and following the Civil War, in the years between 1859 and 1876, along with extensive quotations from men and women alive during the war years and text by literary figures, including Emily Dickinson, Mark Twain and Walt Whitman. 15,000 first printing.
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