Thursday, August 17 – Friday, September 23 2016
The dioramas of Robert Turney recreate actual battes fought during the American Civil War, with the addition of hand-painted figurines, toy dinosaurs, pirates, a muscle car, a Gay Pride cotillion, a talking dolphin and a Panzer tank. The story of our Civil War has slipped from tragic history to romanticized myth, or worse, from the stench of death lingering over countless battlefields, to a genteel nostalgia suitable for a PBS documentary. “The Real History of the American Civil War” extends this propagandistic metaphor to the point where death and gore become play.