Lectures in Art History: Vance Byrd, University of Pennsylvania - The University of North Carolina at Chapel Hill unc.edu - get the latest breaking news, showbiz & celebrity photos, sport news & rumours, viral videos and top stories from unc.edu Daily Mail and Mail on Sunday newspapers.
In eighth grade, Vance Byrd was surrounded by the Battle of Atlanta.
A school field trip took him to the Atlanta Cyclorama and Civil War Museum, built around a massive cylindrical painting of the Civil War battle. Created in 1882 by 17 German artists, the painting is 40 feet tall and longer than a football field, and completely surrounds viewers with the painted battle scene. There’s an audio component, too: the recorded voices of Civil War veterans and an official narrative.
“It was supposed to make you feel like you were there,” said Byrd, now the Frank and Roberta Furbush Scholar and Chair of the German Studies Department at Grinnell College.
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“We met in the graduate school program for art history at the University of Chicago in the fall of 1991. Mac is a modernist and Anne is a medievalist – worlds apart! – so we never had any seminars together. Instead, the Art Library – where Anne worked – was really the place where we met and talked and hung out and got to know each other. The activities involved in researching and writing PhDs were also bonding experiences, as was traveling in France and Germany for on-site research. You really get to know someone walking on the roof of a cathedral or experiencing experimental architecture!”