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PANTHEON DE LA GUERRE: RECONFIGURING A PANORAMA OF THE By Mark Levitch New
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Item specifics
- Condition
- Series
- Na
- Book Title
- Pantheon De La Guerre: Reconfiguring a Panorama of the Great War
- ISBN-10
- 0826216781
- Educational Level
- Adult & Further Education
- Level
- Beginner
- Genre
- Art
- ISBN
- 9780826216786
About this product
Product Identifiers
Publisher
University of Missouri Press
ISBN-10
0826216781
ISBN-13
9780826216786
eBay Product ID (ePID)
53731150
Product Key Features
Number of Pages
224 Pages
Publication Name
Panthéon De La Guerre : Reconfiguring a Panorama of the Great War
Language
English
Publication Year
2006
Subject
Techniques / Painting, Military / World War I, European, World
Type
Textbook
Subject Area
Art, History
Format
Hardcover
Dimensions
Item Height
0.8 in
Item Weight
31.7 Oz
Item Length
7 in
Item Width
10 in
Additional Product Features
Intended Audience
College Audience
LCCN
2006-013557
Dewey Edition
22
Reviews
" Panthéon de la Guerre is a fascinating and original account of a neglected chapter in the cultural history of the First World War. . . . An intriguing and engaging piece of scholarship." - Jay Winter, author of The Great War and the Shaping of the Twentieth Century, " Panthéon de la Guerre is a fascinating and original account of a neglected chapter in the cultural history of the First World War. . . . An intriguing and engaging piece of scholarship." -- Jay Winter, author of The Great War and the Shaping of the Twentieth Century, " Panth on de la Guerre is a fascinating and original account of a neglected chapter in the cultural history of the First World War. . . . An intriguing and engaging piece of scholarship." - Jay Winter, author of The Great War and the Shaping of the Twentieth Century, " Panthon de la Guerre is a fascinating and original account of a neglected chapter in the cultural history of the First World War. . . . An intriguing and engaging piece of scholarship." -- Jay Winter, author of The Great War and the Shaping of the Twentieth Century
Grade From
College Freshman
Illustrated
Yes
Dewey Decimal
751.7/40944
Grade To
College Graduate Student
Synopsis
In its day it was, quite simply, the world's largest painting. The Panth on de la Guerre was a cyclorama the size of a football field, featuring 5,000 full-length portraits of prominent figures from World War I--a painting that blatantly sought to arouse patriotic fervor in its viewers. This book traces that work's shifting fortunes during its unlikely journey from Great War Paris to cold war Kansas City and examines the continuing journeys of its fragments in the world's art markets. Mark Levitch has written the first history and analysis of the Panth on , capturing its social life in a story full of surprising twists and turns and as epic as the painting itself. Created in Paris as an artist-generated propaganda project while the war raged, the Panth on was celebrated there as a solemn and nostalgic work after the war, then was promoted as a circuslike spectacle on a postwar tour of the United States when it was "updated" to appeal to Americans' more celebratory view of the conflict. Consigned to storage and all but forgotten after World War II, the Panth on was eventually procured for Kansas City's Liberty Memorial in 1956, where less than 7 percent of the work was reconfigured into a smaller U.S.-centric mural--some of the unused fragments eventually surfacing in Paris flea markets and on eBay. Levitch looks at the Panth on as both painting and artifact, combining cultural history, art history, and material culture studies to trace the changing reception of traditional art in the new age of mechanical media. He assesses the changing values attached to the Panth on and argues that the panorama's status and frequent reshaping have both informed and been informed by the experience and memory of the First World War in France and the United States--and also reflects on how it has promoted a politically and culturally conservative agenda. Brimming with facts and insights that will amaze anyone who has known the painting in any of its incarnations, Levitch's handsomely illustrated book provides a unique lens through which to view a conflict and its commemoration. And as people continue to place importance on commemorative projects, it is a powerful reminder of how ephemeral such grand undertakings can be., In its day it was, quite simply, the world's largest painting. The Panthéon de la Guerre was a cyclorama the size of a football field, featuring 5,000 full-length portraits of prominent figures from World War I--a painting that blatantly sought to arouse patriotic fervor in its viewers. This book traces that work's shifting fortunes during its unlikely journey from Great War Paris to cold war Kansas City and examines the continuing journeys of its fragments in the world's art markets. Mark Levitch has written the first history and analysis of the Panthéon , capturing its social life in a story full of surprising twists and turns and as epic as the painting itself. Created in Paris as an artist-generated propaganda project while the war raged, the Panthéon was celebrated there as a solemn and nostalgic work after the war, then was promoted as a circuslike spectacle on a postwar tour of the United States when it was "updated" to appeal to Americans' more celebratory view of the conflict. Consigned to storage and all but forgotten after World War II, the Panthéon was eventually procured for Kansas City's Liberty Memorial in 1956, where less than 7 percent of the work was reconfigured into a smaller U.S.-centric mural--some of the unused fragments eventually surfacing in Paris flea markets and on eBay. Levitch looks at the Panthéon as both painting and artifact, combining cultural history, art history, and material culture studies to trace the changing reception of traditional art in the new age of mechanical media. He assesses the changing values attached to the Panthéon and argues that the panorama's status and frequent reshaping have both informed and been informed by the experience and memory of the First World War in France and the United States--and also reflects on how it has promoted a politically and culturally conservative agenda. Brimming with facts and insights that will amaze anyone who has known the painting in any of its incarnations, Levitch's handsomely illustrated book provides a unique lens through which to view a conflict and its commemoration. And as people continue to place importance on commemorative projects, it is a powerful reminder of how ephemeral such grand undertakings can be.
LC Classification Number
ND2880.5.F8L48 2006
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