Suffering and sunset : World War I in the art and life of Horace Pippin /
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| Author / Creator: | Bernier, Celeste-Marie, author. |
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| Imprint: | Philadelphia : Temple University Press, 2015. |
| Description: | xv, 498 pages, 32 unnumbered pages of plates : illustrations ; 25 cm |
| Language: | English |
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| Format: | Print Book |
| URL for this record: | http://pi.lib.uchicago.edu/1001/cat/bib/10390513 |
Table of Contents:
- List of Figures and Color Plates
- Introduction The Portrait of a Soldier Is the Portrait of an Artist
- Part I. A Life Story of War Is a Life Story of Art
- Chapter 1. "I have seen men die": The "Unknown Black Soldier" and Horace Pippin as Memorialist-Witness to a Life Story of War
- Chapter 2. "Don't tell me how to paint": Horace Pippin as a Self-Made Soldier-Artist
- Part II. War and Writing in the Life of Horace Pippin
- Chapter 3. "the houl intir batel feel were hell": Language, Symbolism, and Remembering No Man's Land
- Chapter 4. "The Body of Men": Horace Pippin's Autobiography as an Antiwar Memorial
- Part III. War and Painting in the Life of Horace Pippin
- Chapter 5. The Ending of the War versus The End of the War: A Warring Past in a Peacetime Present in Horace Pippin's Visual Warscapes
- Chapter 6. Tracing a "ghost-like memory": The Afterlife and Afterdeath of World War I in Horace Pippin's Still Lifes, Domestic Interiors, Allegorical Landscapes, and Political Works
- Conclusion "I am a lone": Debate, Discovery, and Controversy in the Life and Letters of Horace Pippin
- Epilogue
- Acknowledgments
- Notes
- Glossary
- Selected Bibliography
- Index
