Trompe l'œil painting and the counterfeit Civil War

• Autores: Cécile Whiting
• Localización: Art bulletin, ISSN 0004-3079, Vol. 79, Nº 2, 1997, págs. 251-268
• Idioma: inglés
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• Resumen

  • Joining in the widespread renewal of interest in the Civil War at the turn of the century, a number of trompe l'œil paintings from the 1880s and 1890s depict aging war memorabilia on their deceptive surfaces. The circulation and display of these paintings drew together a fraternity of Northern Republican businessmen who had themselves served in the war. The pictures, however, also appealed to a broader audience that shared with these businessmen the capacity to manage the interpretive ambiguities of the sort manifested both by the trickeries of contemporary commerce and by the misleading paintings of Civil War souvenirs.