Panthéon de la Guerre : reconfiguring a panorama of the Great War /

Panthéon de la Guerre : reconfiguring a panorama of the Great War /

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Bibliographic Details
Author / Creator:	Levitch, Mark, 1964-
Imprint:	Columbia : University of Missouri Press ; Kansas City, Mo. : National World War I Museum, c2006.
Description:	xiii, 208 p. : ill. (some col.), map ; 19 x 27 cm.
Language:	English
Subject:	World War (1914-1918) Panthéon de la Guerre. Panthéon de la Guerre. Panoramas -- France. Nationalism in art. World War, 1914-1918 -- Portraits. Nationalism in art. Panoramas. France. Portraits.
Format:	Print Book
URL for this record:	http://pi.lib.uchicago.edu/1001/cat/bib/6167644

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ISBN:	0826216781 (hardcover : alk. paper) 9780826216786
Notes:	Includes bibliographical references (p. 191-197) and index.
Summary:	"Assesses the changing values attached to the Panthéon de la Guerre, a propagandist panorama featuring 5,000 full-length portraits of prominent figures from WWI, during its journey from Great War Paris to cold war Kansas City's Liberty Memorial. Examines its reconfiguration there and the dispersion of fragments into international art markets"--Provided by publisher.

Table of Contents:

Wartime realization: Paris, 1914-1918
Content and composition: 1914-1918
French reception: 1918-1927
Interwar U.S. road trip: 1927-1940
Kansas City and fragmentation: 1952-present
Conclusion: inadvertent modernism?
Appendix 1: chronology of the Panthéon de la Guerre
Appendix 2: the Panthéon's artists.