32102
Seminar
SoSe 13: Visual Culture of Slavery and the American Civil War, 1840-1870
Patricia Schulze Hills
Comments
The seminar focuses on American visual culture of the Civil War era: Slavery, the Civil War, Emancipation, and early Reconstruction, including paintings, sculpture, book illustration, graphics in the illustrated weeklies, photography, exhibitions, and organized urban spectacles. Topics will include but not be limited to: slavery and the slave auction in sculpture and paintings; illustrations for such books as Uncle Tom's Cabin; the visual record of the Civil War in the illustrated press, such as Harper's Weekly; the carnage of battle in the photographs of Matthew Brady, Alexander Gardner, and Timothy O'Sullivan; picturing wartime activities of soldiers at the front and women on the home front; the "Emancipation Proclamation" in popular imagery; images of the death and mourning of President Lincoln; the radical John Brown in graphics and text; visual conceptions of the Freedmen's Bureau; and the rise of the Ku Klux Klan in popular imagery. close
14 Class schedule
Regular appointments
Tue, 2013-04-09 10:00 - 12:00
Tue, 2013-04-16 10:00 - 12:00
Tue, 2013-04-23 10:00 - 12:00
Tue, 2013-04-30 10:00 - 12:00
Tue, 2013-05-07 10:00 - 12:00
Tue, 2013-05-14 10:00 - 12:00
Tue, 2013-05-21 10:00 - 12:00
Tue, 2013-05-28 10:00 - 12:00
Tue, 2013-06-04 10:00 - 12:00
Tue, 2013-06-11 10:00 - 12:00
Tue, 2013-06-18 10:00 - 12:00
Tue, 2013-06-25 10:00 - 12:00
Tue, 2013-07-02 10:00 - 12:00
Tue, 2013-07-09 10:00 - 12:00