#Whitman memoranda during the war plus

#Whitman memoranda during the war plus

Complementing the art is a generous sampling of WhitmanвЂ™s wartime poetry and prose, plus guest essays by four distinguished authorsвЂ“Barbara Bair (Library of Congress historian), Molly Rogers (author of DeliaвЂ™s Tears), and celebrated poets David Lehman and Stanley Plumly.Д«inh DanhвЂ™s work has been included in important exhibitions at museums across the country, as well as in the collections of the Corcoran Art Gallery, The Philadelphia Museum of Art, the George Eastman House and the National Gallery of the Art. The book contains 51 images, including cyanotypes of battlefield memorials by Binh Danh and chlorophyll print portraits of combatants and their loved ones by Robert Schultz. War Memoranda is a book of art, poetry, and comment that looks at the U.S. War MemorandaВ was accompanied by the book War Memoranda: Photography, Walt Whitman, and Memorials by Binh Danh and Robert Schultz, published by the Taubman Museum of Art to mark the 200th anniversary of WhitmanвЂ™s birth and to bring the poetвЂ™s humane example to our momentвЂ™s controversies over war, memory, and reconciliation. Pursuing intimate history, War Memoranda contemplates American wars and choreographs moments of encounter with our national past and the people who lived it. At the same time, 2015 is the 150th anniversary of Whitman's volume of war poetry, Drum Taps, and the 160th anniversary of his landmark first edition Leaves of Grass. Civil War Sesquicentennial observations close, the nation begins to mark the 50th anniversary of America's involvement in the Vietnam War. War Memoranda seizes upon a remarkable coincidence: as the U.S. The exhibition features two major series' of daguerreotypes by Danh, fifty chlorophyll prints, twenty cyanotypes, three artists' books, and five of Schultz's poems. Merging past and present, War Memoranda evokes the secret, 'interior history' of war. 'The real war will never get in the books,' Whitman declared, citing the 'interior history' of 'the actual soldier of 1862-'65, North and South, with all his ways.' Taking on this challenge, photographer Binh Danh and author Robert Schultz have drawn upon Whitman's poetry and prose and striking Civil War portraits, applying nineteenth-century techniques and media to create unique works that meditate upon our nation's conflicts. The exhibition probes the question, 'How do Americans remember war?' with soldiers' portraits developed in the flesh of leaves, battlefield landscapes photographed using nineteenth-century technologies, and war poems of intimate reflection. War Memoranda: Photography, Walt Whitman, and Renewal is a unique word and image exhibition that combines the poetry of Walt Whitman, the Liljenquist Collection Civil War Portraits from the Library of Congress, and photographs made with both old and very new photographic processes.