Panthéon de la Guerre : reconfiguring a panorama of the Great War / Mark Levitch.
| Author/creator | Levitch, Mark, 1964- |
| Format | Book |
| Publication Info | Columbia : University of Missouri Press ; Kansas City, Mo. : National World War I Museum, ©2006. |
| Description | xiii, 208 pages : illustrations (some color), map ; 19 x 27 cm |
| Supplemental Content | Table 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 note | Includes bibliographical references (p. 191-197) and index. |
| LCCN | 2006013557 |
| ISBN | 0826216781 (hardcover : alk. paper) |
| ISBN | 9780826216786 |