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Art History Faculty Lecture | Akela Reason

November 2nd, 2023 at 5:00 pm

Date & Time
November 2nd, 2023 at 5:00 pm – November 2nd, 2023 at 6:00 pm

Location
Lamar Dodd School of Art | N100

Type of Event
Faculty Research Lecture Series

Academic Area
Art History

Image Credit: Stoughton and Stoughton, New York Soldiers’ and Sailors’ Monument, 1902, Riverside Park

 

Associate Professor of History and Director of the UGA Museum Studies Certificate Program Akela Reason will present the lecture “Politics and Memory: Civil War Monuments in Gilded Age New York.”

Lecture Abstract

As the financial and artistic capital of post-bellum America, New York built some of the most significant monuments to the Civil War. Yet in order to build the city’s monuments, the Republican elite who often spearheaded efforts to commemorate the war, frequently had to negotiate with the city’s notoriously corrupt Democratic politicians and bureaucrats. These two groups disagreed on most matters but especially on issues pertaining to the war and aesthetics. Not surprisingly, the tensions between the groups took material form in the monuments they built together. This talk examines how these conflicts shaped the design of New York’s Civil War monuments in terms of form, function, and siting

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