The Civil War Paintings of Mort Kunstler

by Kunstler, Mort

• ISBN13: 9781581825565
• ISBN10: 1581825560
• Format: Hardcover
• Copyright: 2006-11-06
• Publisher: Cumberland House

Summary

For nearly thirty years, Mort Kunstler has focused his considerable artistic talent on interpreting the Civil War. In crafting his work to reflect poignant moments or critical circumstances of the conflict, he has turned to leading historians and scholars for informative details that he has then translated on canvas to create an indelible image of this defining ordeal in America's history. More than 160 of these images?supplemented by preliminary sketches, early studies, and photographs of works in progress?are the basis for this book. Kunstler has also explored the human side of this national struggle. Thus he has produced thoughtful studies of leaders at decisive moments, instances of daily camp life for the soldiers, and those early romantic notions that it would be a bloodless war, predicated on the belief that a show of inner strength would prevail. In the past twenty years, Kunstler's portfolio has been published in twelve books, including companion pieces for the epic films ?Ge

Table of Contents

Foreword	9	(5)
The Lincoln-Douglas Debates	14	(2)
Secession/Florida Secedes	16	(6)
Moonlight and Magnolias	22	(6)
Magnolia Morning	28	(4)
Fort Sumter	32	(2)
The Flag and the Union Imperiled	34	(2)
Blessing of the Sword	36	(4)
The Professor from Virginia	40	(2)
The Road to Glory/Thomas J. Jackson Leaves VMI	42	(6)
Jackson Commandeers the Railroad	48	(8)
Iron Horses, Men of Steel	56	(6)
Victory Rode the Rails	62	(8)
``There Stands Jackson Like a Stone Wall''	70	(6)
``The Sweetest Music . . .''	76	(2)
First to the Guns	78	(4)
Charleston---Autumn 1861	82	(6)
Guns of Autumn	88	(4)
The Winds of Winter	92	(6)
After the Snow	98	(6)
A Fleeting Moment	104	(6)
Stone Wall	110	(2)
Until We Meet Again	112	(6)
Rebel Sons of Erin	118	(4)
The Ghost Column	122	(4)
The Fight at Fallen Timbers	126	(4)
Confederate Winter	130	(6)
The USS Monitor and the CSS Virginia	136	(2)
General Thomas J. ``Stonewall'' Jackson	138	(8)
Especially for You	146	(2)
Lee Takes Command/Passing of Command	148	(6)
Stuart's Ride Around McCiellan	154	(6)
``...They Were Soldiers Indeed''	160	(4)
White House Strategy	164	(4)
The High Command	168	(4)
``I Will Be Moving Within the Hour''	172	(8)
With a Rebel Yell	180	(8)
The Commanders of Manassas	188	(6)
Gods and Generals	194	(6)
Stonewall Jackson at Harpers Ferry	200	(6)
Jackson at Antietam (Sharpsburg)	206	(6)
``Raise the Colors and Follow Me!''	212	(6)
The New General/Hancock the Superb	218	(4)
Sharpsburg War Council	222	(6)
Night Crossing	228	(8)
Indexes	236