Civil War Curator Eleanor jones harvey gives a group of journalists a tour of the galleries and describes how the conflict transformed Photography And Art in ways that are not always obvious. This is part two of a twopart program. One of my favorites is an artist that oh, i would say next to none of you know much about and thats conrad wise chapman. Conrad is the radical confederate in the family. He is 21 years old when the war breaks out conrad grew up in italy. And he ends up coming back to the United States specifically to fight he is that rabbit about all of this the nine little oil sketches in the matching frames that you see here are all his works conrad wise chapman is at his heart a Landscape Painter and i think he and Sanford Gifford actually are kind of doppelgangers for each other if you look at Giffords Pictures and you look at chapmans pictures, there are a lot of parallels in the way that they handle the skies and the emotion and the little teeny tiny figures and theyre
And american art. View a slideshow of images at americanart. Si. Edu. Up next we visit the smithsonian american Art Museum where an exhibit features paintings and photographs created during the civil War Curator Eleanor jones harvey gives a group of journalists a tour of the galleries and describes how the conflict transformed Photography And Art in ways that are not always obvious. This is part two of a twopart program. One of my favorites is an artist that oh, i would say next to none of you know much about and thats conrad wise chapman. Conrad is the radical confederate in the family. He is 21 years old when the war breaks out conrad grew up in italy. And he ends up coming back to the United States specifically to fight he is that rabbit about all of this the nine little oil sketches in the matching frames that you see here are all his works conrad wise chapman is at his heart a Landscape Painter and i think he and Sanford Gifford actually are kind of doppelgangers for each other if
Breaks out conrad grew up in italy. And he ends up coming back to the United States specifically to fight he is that rabbit about all of this the nine little oil sketches in the matching frames that you see here are all his works conrad wise chapman is at his heart a Landscape Painter and i think he and Sanford Gifford actually are kind of doppelgangers for each other if you look at Giffords Pictures and you look at chapmans pictures, there are a lot of parallels in the way that they handle the skies and the emotion and the little teeny tiny figures and theyre better doing little ones than they are doing big ones because basically their Landscape Painters conrad his dad finally gets him reassigned away from the action. He shot. He shoots himself in the head at shiloh, which maybe one of those selfinflicted. You know stress moves. It doesnt obviously kill him. It just gets him out of action for a while and his dad basically appeals to the governor of virginia who is a general in the arm
Class on the evolution of a natural park system and the effort to preserve pristine wilderness. She argues that this approach obscures the ways that humans have iran tractor with the land. Her class is about one hour in ten minutes. So today were gonna be talking about landscapes and preservation and sort of preservation unexpectedly changes parks is protected areas. The intention here is really not only to sort of understand the history of these types of protected spaces but then also to make the process of preservation more visible. To make it more easier to understand, not only the history of parks and how they have changed over time the sort of more importantly why they have changed over time. Most of us when we think about preservation, we think about something staying the same and yet preservation actually changes things so thats really kind of the focus were gonna aim at today. I want to see if i can manage this. So in the context of sort of open space lands here in the u. S. ,
Publications including the american scholar, the american short fiction, the atlantic monthly, new republic, the smithsonian, the Washington Post magazine, and the wilson quarterly. And opinions and book review pages of the boston globe. The New York Times, u. S. Today in the Washington Post. He lives in virginia. Please give a warm welcome to robert wilson. [applause]. [background sounds]. Thank you ce that introduction. I am hoping your app works a lot better than the app for the iowa caucuses. [laughter]. I trust it will. You can probably actually test it. Thanks to all of you for coming this morning on this cold morning. It is very pleasant to see so many of you here. Very pleasant to see cspan here. I dont think cspan for all of the done to support book culture in america. I am attempt to say that normally what remains of the culture in america but on a day like today, its very easy to be optimistic about the state of books. I love being in savannah. My wife martha and i come here