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First hand : Civil War era drawings from the Becker collection
Title
First hand : Civil War era drawings from the Becker collection / edited by Judith Bookbinder and Sheila Gallagher.
ISBN
9781892850157 (pbk.)
189285015X
Published
Chestnut Hill, MA : McMullen Museum of Art, Boston College ; [Chicago] : Distributed by the University of Chicago Press, 2009.
Physical Description
272 p. : ill. (some col.) ; 23 x 27 cm.
Notes
Published in conjunction with the exhibition of the same name held at the McMullen Museum of Art, Boston College, Sept. 5-Dec. 13, 2009.
Format
Books
Language
English
Added to Catalog
March 17, 2011
Bibliography
Includes bibliographical references (p. 265-272).
Contents
Preface / Nancy Netzer
Introduction / Sheila Gallagher and Judith Bookbinder
An artist's interesting recollections of Leslie's weekly / Joseph Becker
Civil War drawings as art / Judith Bookbinder
Drawing as information / Sheila Gallagher
Seeing the archives / James M. O'Toole
Special artists of the Civil War / Harry L. Katz
In the midst of battle / Judith Bookbinder
Figures of life and figures of death / James D. Wallace
The black image in the white northern mind / Lucia Zaucha Knoles
Microhistories : Civil War witnessing before memorialization / Nirmal Trivedi
Authenticity, the master author, and the missing hand / Natasha Seaman
Joeseph Becker visits the Shakers / Robert P. Emlen
Political(?) cartoons in the Becker Collection / Vincent J. Cannato.
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