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

VISUAL Posted: December 13, 2018 10:02 am

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

VISUAL Published: December 2018

Read the story in Smithsonian Magazine Published: December 2018

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