Conrad Wise Chapman: Artist & Soldier of the Confederacy: Artist and Soldier of the Confederacy - Rilegato

Bassham, Ben L.

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ISBN 10: 0873385934 ISBN 13: 9780873385930

Casa editrice: Kent State Univ Pr, 1998

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duty as a Confederate soldier who served in three theaters of the war. Chapman's firsthand knowledge is evident in his work. Ben Bassham has written both a critical study of Chapman's art and biography, incorporating Chapman's correspondence and Civil War memoirs. Conrad's father, artist and teacher John Gadsby Chapman, moved his family from the U.S. to Italy in 1850. In 1861, Conrad returned to enlist in the Confederate Army. He served for a year in the West and was wounded at the Shiloh. Following his recovery, he was transferred to a regiment in Virginia, and a year later he went to Charleston, where he was ordered by General Pierre G. T. Beauregard to create a pictorial record of the Confederate Army's defense of Charleston harbor. Chapman completed a series of 31 paintings of Charleston as well as many other Civil War?related pictures familiar to historians. In 1867 he wrote his memoirs of his days as a soldier, a record that contains vivid descriptions of camp life, his first taste of battle, and his weeks in Confederate hospitals. After the war, Chapman spent eighteen months in Mexico, becoming the first American artist to pain that country's landscape. He lived the remainder of his life in Europe, Mexico, and the United States. The historical importance of Chapman's paintings as a record of the Civil War cannot be overemphasized, but this study also placed Chapman's art for the first time in the context of Southern as well as American art.

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• Editore: Kent State Univ Pr
• Data di pubblicazione: 1998
• ISBN 10: 0873385934
• ISBN 13: 9780873385930
• Rilegatura: Copertina rigida
• Numero di pagine: 328