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

Author/creator Levitch, Mark, 1964-
Format Book
Publication InfoColumbia : University of Missouri Press ; Kansas City, Mo. : National World War I Museum, ©2006.
Descriptionxiii, 208 pages : illustrations (some color), map ; 19 x 27 cm
Supplemental ContentTable of contents only
Subjects

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.
Abstract "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.
Bibliography noteIncludes bibliographical references (p. 191-197) and index.
LCCN 2006013557
ISBN0826216781 (hardcover : alk. paper)
ISBN9780826216786