Visualizing Emancipation and the Postwar South in the Popular and Fine Arts

Sarah Burns, Indiana UniversityCUNY Graduate Center, July 19, 2016In this discussion, Sarah Burns examines common Civil War narratives in fine arts in this period by examining the work of artists such as William Walker, Thomas Waterman, and Winslow Homer. Burns asks who created the pieces and for what audience and further questioning the works by examining portraits showing a different narrative of African Americans. Ultimately concluding that these works are a contention between white construction and black agency. This talk took place on July 19, 2016, as part of ASHP’s Visual Culture of the Civil War Summer Institute, an NEH professional development program for college and university faculty.

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Visualizing Emancipation and the Postwar South in the Popular and Fine Arts is an episode from ASHP Podcast by American Social History Project/Center for Media and Learning.

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This episode was published on Aug 22, 2017.

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