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Panthéon de la Guerre : Reconfiguring a Panorama of the Great War by Mark Levitch (2006, Hardcover)

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Product Identifiers

PublisherUniversity of Missouri Press

ISBN-100826216781

ISBN-139780826216786

eBay Product ID (ePID)53731150

Product Key Features

Number of Pages224 Pages

Publication NamePanthéon De La Guerre : Reconfiguring a Panorama of the Great War

LanguageEnglish

Publication Year2006

SubjectTechniques / Painting, Military / World War I, European, World

TypeTextbook

AuthorMark Levitch

Subject AreaArt, History

FormatHardcover

Dimensions

Item Height0.8 in

Item Weight31.7 Oz

Item Length7 in

Item Width10 in

Additional Product Features

Intended AudienceCollege Audience

LCCN2006-013557

Dewey Edition22

Reviews" Panthéon de la Guerre is a fascinating and original account of a neglected chapter in the cultural history of the First World War. . . . An intriguing and engaging piece of scholarship." - Jay Winter, author of The Great War and the Shaping of the Twentieth Century, " Panthéon de la Guerre is a fascinating and original account of a neglected chapter in the cultural history of the First World War. . . . An intriguing and engaging piece of scholarship." -- Jay Winter, author of The Great War and the Shaping of the Twentieth Century, " Panth on de la Guerre is a fascinating and original account of a neglected chapter in the cultural history of the First World War. . . . An intriguing and engaging piece of scholarship." - Jay Winter, author of The Great War and the Shaping of the Twentieth Century, " Panthon de la Guerre is a fascinating and original account of a neglected chapter in the cultural history of the First World War. . . . An intriguing and engaging piece of scholarship." -- Jay Winter, author of The Great War and the Shaping of the Twentieth Century

Grade FromCollege Freshman

IllustratedYes

Dewey Decimal751.7/40944

Grade ToCollege Graduate Student

SynopsisIn its day it was, quite simply, the world's largest painting. The Panth on de la Guerre was a cyclorama the size of a football field, featuring 5,000 full-length portraits of prominent figures from World War I--a painting that blatantly sought to arouse patriotic fervor in its viewers. This book traces that work's shifting fortunes during its unlikely journey from Great War Paris to cold war Kansas City and examines the continuing journeys of its fragments in the world's art markets. Mark Levitch has written the first history and analysis of the Panth on , capturing its social life in a story full of surprising twists and turns and as epic as the painting itself. Created in Paris as an artist-generated propaganda project while the war raged, the Panth on was celebrated there as a solemn and nostalgic work after the war, then was promoted as a circuslike spectacle on a postwar tour of the United States when it was "updated" to appeal to Americans' more celebratory view of the conflict. Consigned to storage and all but forgotten after World War II, the Panth on was eventually procured for Kansas City's Liberty Memorial in 1956, where less than 7 percent of the work was reconfigured into a smaller U.S.-centric mural--some of the unused fragments eventually surfacing in Paris flea markets and on eBay. Levitch looks at the Panth on as both painting and artifact, combining cultural history, art history, and material culture studies to trace the changing reception of traditional art in the new age of mechanical media. He assesses the changing values attached to the Panth on and argues that the panorama's status and frequent reshaping have both informed and been informed by the experience and memory of the First World War in France and the United States--and also reflects on how it has promoted a politically and culturally conservative agenda. Brimming with facts and insights that will amaze anyone who has known the painting in any of its incarnations, Levitch's handsomely illustrated book provides a unique lens through which to view a conflict and its commemoration. And as people continue to place importance on commemorative projects, it is a powerful reminder of how ephemeral such grand undertakings can be., In its day it was, quite simply, the world's largest painting. The Panthéon de la Guerre was a cyclorama the size of a football field, featuring 5,000 full-length portraits of prominent figures from World War I--a painting that blatantly sought to arouse patriotic fervor in its viewers. This book traces that work's shifting fortunes during its unlikely journey from Great War Paris to cold war Kansas City and examines the continuing journeys of its fragments in the world's art markets. Mark Levitch has written the first history and analysis of the Panthéon , capturing its social life in a story full of surprising twists and turns and as epic as the painting itself. Created in Paris as an artist-generated propaganda project while the war raged, the Panthéon was celebrated there as a solemn and nostalgic work after the war, then was promoted as a circuslike spectacle on a postwar tour of the United States when it was "updated" to appeal to Americans' more celebratory view of the conflict. Consigned to storage and all but forgotten after World War II, the Panthéon was eventually procured for Kansas City's Liberty Memorial in 1956, where less than 7 percent of the work was reconfigured into a smaller U.S.-centric mural--some of the unused fragments eventually surfacing in Paris flea markets and on eBay. Levitch looks at the Panthéon as both painting and artifact, combining cultural history, art history, and material culture studies to trace the changing reception of traditional art in the new age of mechanical media. He assesses the changing values attached to the Panthéon and argues that the panorama's status and frequent reshaping have both informed and been informed by the experience and memory of the First World War in France and the United States--and also reflects on how it has promoted a politically and culturally conservative agenda. Brimming with facts and insights that will amaze anyone who has known the painting in any of its incarnations, Levitch's handsomely illustrated book provides a unique lens through which to view a conflict and its commemoration. And as people continue to place importance on commemorative projects, it is a powerful reminder of how ephemeral such grand undertakings can be.

LC Classification NumberND2880.5.F8L48 2006