For Us the Living: The Civil War in Paintings and Eyewitness Accounts
An anthology of Künstler’s oeuvre, this work collects a popular artist’s aesthetic style for Civil War buffs who will not only instantly recognize most subjects Künstler depicts but perhaps remember some paintings from their reproductions in one of Künstler’s prior albums (e.g., Images of the Civil War, 1992). Many are kinetic freeze-frames of epic incidents of battle––Künstler’s series on Pickett’s Charge is here––and of legendary commanders in councils of war. Most numerous are scenes of Confederate Robert E. Lee and his lieutenants. Unabashedly posing his figures in heroic or ennobling postures, Künstler paints as a sharp adherent to technical realism, an important attribute to an audience that is vigilant about the accuracy of uniforms and arms.It will be equally responsive to the moods for which Künstler reaches, uncomplicated evocations of duty and courage in soldiers on campaign and in combat or a more quiet romanticism in domestic scenes from the moonlight-and-magnolias genre. Containing more than 200 color images and commentary by an accomplished Civil War historian, this volume––a cinch to circulate––visually seizes attention. --Gilbert Taylor--This text refers to an out of print or unavailable edition of this title.