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This fascinating book focuses on The Metropolitan Museum of Art's recent acquisition, The"Kearsarge" at Boulogne, by Edouard Manet (1832–1883).During the American Civil War, when Union forces blocked Confederate ports, the Confederacy countered by waging guerrilla warfare on Union merchant shipping. One of the most skilled Confederate raiders was the sloop-of-war Alabama. On June 19, 1864, the U.S.S. Kearsarge and the C.S.S. Alabama fought off the coast of Cherbourg, France. The Alabama sank less than two hours after the first shot was fired. The battle captured the attention of the French people, and Manet, who as a teenager had served in the French navy, raced to Boulogne to see the victorious Kearsarge. He painted a depiction of the battle (which he did not witness), now in Philadelphia, as well as a portrait of the Kearsarge, now in the collection of The Metropolitan Museum of Art. This volume contains essays about the Metropolitan's picture and five additional seascapes painted by Manet in Boulogne during the summer of 1864. Related works by other artists, photographs, and newspaper articles are also included.
Author Biography: David Degener is a naval historian, and Juliet Wilson-Bareau is an independent Manet scholar.
This book is the catalogue for an exhibition at The Metropolitan Museum of Art from June 3 to August 3, 2003.
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Michael Miller
reviewed Manet and the American Civil War: The Battle of U. S. S. Kearsarge and the C. S. S. Alabama on March 05, 2020
Manet and the American Civil War: The Battle of U. S. S. Kearsarge and the C. S. S. Alabama
I quite enjoyed this book. I know virtually nothing about painting or sculpture but found this book to be quite interesting. I read the Blast! collection by Alexander Berkman a month or so back and this was a neat book to read soon after because they discuss different but overlapping aspects of the anarchist movement in north america during WWI. Antliff knows his anarchism and writes convincingly of the impact of anarchism on art in the USA. Also, of related interest, I appreciated and was intrigued by the overlap with the Modern School movement. Good stuff. This is Antliff's "academic" book. I assume most readers would prefer Antliff's other title "Anarchy and Art" because its topic is broader and the book more affordable.
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Add Manet and the American Civil War: The Battle of U. S. S. Kearsarge and the C. S. S. Alabama, This fascinating book focuses on The Metropolitan Museum of Art's recent acquisition, TheKearsarge at Boulogne, by Edouard Manet (1832–1883).During the American Civil War, when Union forces blocked Confederate ports, the Confederacy countered by waging , Manet and the American Civil War: The Battle of U. S. S. Kearsarge and the C. S. S. Alabama to your collection on WonderClub |
