Home front : daily life in the Civil War North Peter John Brownlee, Sarah Burns, Diane Dillon, Daniel Greene, Scott Manning Stevens ; with a foreword by Adam Goodheart

Format:

Book

Author/Creator:

Brownlee, Peter John, author.

Burns, Sarah, author.

Dillon, Diane, 1958- author.

Greene, Daniel, 1973- author.

Stevens, Scott Manning, author.

Contributor:

Goodheart, Adam, writer of added commentary.

Terra Foundation for American Art, sponsoring body.

Newberry Library, host institution.

Language:

English

Subjects (All):

Art, American--Northeastern States--19th century--Exhibitions.

Art, American.

Painting, American--Northeastern States--19th century--Exhibitions.

Painting, American.

United States--History--Civil War, 1861-1865--Art and the war--Exhibitions.

United States.

Art, American--Northeastern States--19th century.

Painting, American--Northeastern States--19th century.

United States--History--Civil War, 1861-1865--Art and the war.

Physical Description:

xx 193 pages : illustrations ; 28 cm

Place of Publication:

Chicago : The University of Chicago Press, 2013.

Contents:

Foreword: picturing war / Adam Goodheart

The home at war, the war at home: the art of the Northern home front / Sarah Burns and Daniel Greene

The fabric of war: cotton, commodities, and contrabands / Peter John Brownlee

Other homes, other fronts: native America during the Civil War / Scott Stevens

Nothing daunts Chicago: wartime relief on the home front / Daniel Greene

Rending and mending: the needle, the flag, and the wounds of war in Lilly Martin Spencer's Home of the red, white, and blue / Sarah Burns

Nature, nurture, nation: appetites for apples and autumn during the Civil War / Diane Dillon.

Notes:

Published to accompany an exhibition prepared by Terra Foundation for American Art in Chicago and Newberry Library, held at the Newberry Library from September 2013 to March 2014.

Includes bibliographical references (pages 167-182) and index.

ISBN:

9780226061856

022606185X

OCLC:

824088315