Thursday, December 13, 2018

Atlanta’s Monumental Piece Of Civil War Propaganda Art Is Being Restored To Tell The Truth

No, this isn’t Stone Mountain. It’s “the largest palimpsest of Civil War memory to be found anywhere on planet Earth — the Atlanta Cyclorama, one of the great wonders of the postmodern world.” Which is to say, it’s an enormous 360-degree painting, once a major tourist attraction, that was painted over repeatedly to change the narrative and show one side or the other as winning. — Smithsonian Magazine



Article source here:Arts Journal

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