HB*Rare MONUMENTS TO THE LOST CAUSE: Women, Art, & Landscapes of Southern Memory

Description: Monuments To The Lost Cause: Women, Art, And The Landscapes Of Southern Memory, by Cynthia Mills and Pamela H. Simpson. Published by the University of Tennessee Press, 2003. It stands 10.25" tall.This is the Rare HARDCOVER copy in the original dust jacket. The book is in new condition with crisp pages as if it has not been read, but as you see in the photos, there is some very slight rubbing/wear on the dust jacket. I am providing high resolution photos for you to judge condition for yourself. If you have any questions or need additional photos, please contact me before buying. This richly illustrated collection of fourteen essays examines the ways in which Confederate memorials – from Monument Avenue to Stone Mountain – and the public rituals surrounding them testify to the tenets of the Lost Cause, a romanticized narrative of the war. Several essays highlight the creative leading role played by women’s groups in memorialization, while others explore the alternative ways in which people outside white southern culture wrote their very different histories on the southern landscape. The authors – who include Richard Guy Wilson, Catherine W. Bishir, W. Fitzhugh Brundage, and William M.S. Ramussen – trace the origins, objectives, and changing consequences of Confederate monuments over time and the dynamics of individuals and organizations that sponsored them. Thus these essays extend the growing literature on the rhetoric of the Lost Cause by shifting the focus to the realm of the visual. They are especially relevant in the present day when Confederate symbols and monuments continue to play a central role in a public – and often emotionally charged – debate about how the South’s past should be remembered. The editors: Art Historian Cynthia Mills, a specialist in nineteenth-century public sculpture, is executive editor of American Art, the scholarly journal of the Smithsonian American Art Museum. Pamela H. Simpson is the Ernest Williams II Professor of Art History at Washington and Lee University. She is the coauthor of The Architecture of Historic Lexington

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