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CIVIL WAR ART A live, online teacher professional development workshop Image Syllabus. Part One Old Ideals, New Technologies. Winslow Homer, “War for the Union—Bayonet Charge,” Harper’s Weekly , July 12, 1862 Discussion Questions How likely was it that Homer witnessed such a battle? - PowerPoint PPT PresentationTRANSCRIPT
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CIVIL WAR ART
A live, online teacher professional development workshop
Image Syllabus
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Part One
Old Ideals, New Technologies
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Winslow Homer, “War for the Union—Bayonet Charge,”Harper’s Weekly, July 12, 1862
Discussion Questions
How likely was it that Homer witnessed such a battle?
How did he design the scene to bolster home front morale?
How did his image reflect old tactics and old ideals of battle?
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Winslow Homer, “War for the Union—Bayonet Charge,”Harper’s Weekly, July 12, 1862
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Winslow Homer, Defiance: Inviting a Shot Before Petersburg
Oil on panel, 1864
Discussion Questions
How does this portrayal of battle differ from that in Homer’s “Bayonet Charge”?
How is the battlefield and Homer’s image of it organized around the new technology of long-range weaponry?
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Winslow Homer, Defiance: Inviting a Shot before PetersburgOil on panel, 1864
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Winslow Homer, “A Sharp-shooter on Picket Duty”Harper’s Weekly, November 15, 1862
Discussion Question
How does this image make sense of long-distance sharpshooting, a practice Homer would later call “as near as murder as anything I ever could think of in connection with the army”?
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Winslow Homer, “A Sharp-shooter on Picket DutyHarper’s Weekly, November 15, 1862
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John Rogers, SharpshootersPlaster, 1862
Discussion Questions
Is Rogers’ plaster group a celebration or a critique of the sharpshooter’s craft?
Given that he made it for display in middle-class homes, was it wise for him to undertake this subject?
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John Rogers, Sharpshooters, (front) plaster, 1862
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John Rogers, Sharpshooters, (back) plaster,1862
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Part Two
Battlefield Photography:“Bodies in Our Dooryards”
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Alexander GardnerView in the Field, on the west side of Hagerstown road,
after the Battle of AntietamSeptember, 1862
Discussion Questions
The Antietam photographs were the first images of corpses taken in the immediate aftermath of battle.
Why were these photographs so shocking?
How did they upset the conventions of heroic death and proper care for he dead?
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Alexander Gardner, View in the Field, on the west side of Hagerstown road, after the Battle of Antietam, September, 1862
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Alexander GardnerA Contrast: Federal buried, Confederate unburied, where they fell, on Battlefield of Antietam
September, 1862.
Discussion Question
Why is this contrast significant?
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Alexander Gardner, A Contrast: Federal buried, Confederate unburied, where they fell, on Battlefield of
Antietam, September, 1862
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James F. GibsonHome of a Rebel Sharpshooter
July 1863
Discussion Questions
The photographer moved the body and arranged the props before taking the photo. Why?
What does this tell us about “documentary” photography?
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James F. Gibson, Home of a Rebel Sharpshooter, July 1863
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John ReekieA Burial Party, Cold Springs Harbor, Virginia
April, 1865
Discussion Questions
Who is being buried?
Who is doing the burying?
What are the ironies of this image?
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John Reekie, A Burial Party, Cold Springs Harbor, VirginiaApril, 1865
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Part Three
Liberation: Slaves, Contraband, and Freedman
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John Rogers
Camp Life, or Making Friends with the Cook1862
Discussion Questions
How are the two men joined in this narrative?
How are they separated from one another?
Is this comic, or serious, or both?
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John RogersCamp Life, or Making Friends with the Cook1862
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John Quinicy Adams WardThe Freedman
1863
Discussion Questions
How does Ward’s protagonist differ from Rogers’ protagonist in Camp Life?
How doesit feel to take the pose of the Freedman?
What future prospects does his situation suggest?
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John Quinicy Adams WardThe Freedman Bronze, 1863
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“A Typical Negro,” Harper’s Weekly, July 4, 1863
Discussion Questions
How is the before and after contrast constructed, and what is it supposed to tell us?
Why is the scarred back so prominent?
How does it serve as an icon of the Union cause?
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GORDON AS HE ENTERED OUR LINES. GORDON UNDER
MEDICAL INSPECTION.
GORDON IN HIS UNIFORM AS A U. S. SOLDIER.
“A Typical Negro,” Harper’s Weekly, July 4, 1863
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Winslow HomerNear Andersonville (At the Cabin Door)
Oil on canvas, 1865-66
Discussion Questions
How does Homer construct the image to call into question the issues of loyalty and citizenship?
Who are the rightful inhabitants, and who are the occupiers?
Who belongs and who does not?
How does Homer make the point of view problematic?
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Winslow HomerNear Andersonville (At the Cabin Door), 1865-66Oil on canvas
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Part Four
Aftermath
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Winslow HomerPrisoners from the Front
Oil on canvas1866
Discussion Questions
How does this painting stereotype the two sides in the War?
How does this connect, or not, with the liberation narrative of Part Three?
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Winslow Homer, Prisoners from the Front, oil on canvas, 1866
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Thomas Nast“Patience on a Monument
Harper’s Weekly, October 10, 1868
Discussion Questions
How and why does Nast parody a typical public monument?
What does this image say about the white South’s perversion of civic values?
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Thomas Nast,“Patience on a Monument,”Harper’s Weekly,October 10, 1868
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Thomas Ball,Freedmen’s Memorial to Abraham Lincoln,
1876
Discussion Questions
Compare this real monument with Thomas Nast’s imaginary one.
What is the slave figure doing, and why?
Ultimately, how is Ball’s monument more fictional than Nast’s?
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Thomas Ball,Freedmen’s Memorial toAbraham Lincoln,1876
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Elizabeth KeckleyLiberty Quilt
1860s
Discussion Question
How does this quilt function as an alternative memorial to the War?
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Elizabeth Keckley, Liberty Quilt, 1860sFor close-up, visit http://dept.kent.edu/museum/collection/keckley.htm