Selasa, 07 November 2017

The War on Canvas

Long after the guns were silenced, new generations of artists produced haunting images of America’s most painful conflict. In our own era of Künstler, Troiani and Gallon—eagerly collected illustrators of the Civil War—it is hard to imagine that there was once a time when many Americans thought such art ought to be neither produced nor …

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