"An intriguing assemblage of Lincoln's many looks; wild Republican; family man; angry prophet; sagacious dreamer." Todd Crespi, Los Angeles Times "Absorbing and entertaining." The New Yorker "[An] important contribution to the history of American prints as well as to the study of Lincoln ... a feast for both eye and mind." Choice "An exquisite archival picture book." Kenneth R. Clark, Chicago Tribune

How printmakers chronicled and influenced Lincoln's transfiguration into an American icon
Focusing on prints produced in Lincoln's lifetime and in the iconographically important months immediately following his death, this illustrated volume pairs original photographs and paintings with the prints made from them. It includes wartime cartoons, Lincoln family portraits and renderings of the moment of the shooting at Ford's Theatre.
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How printmakers chronicled and influenced Lincoln's transfiguration into an American icon

Produktdetaljer

ISBN
9780252069840
Publisert
2005-09-15
Utgiver
Vendor
University of Illinois Press
Vekt
626 gr
Høyde
279 mm
Bredde
216 mm
Dybde
28 mm
Aldersnivå
01, P, 06
Språk
Product language
Engelsk
Format
Product format
Heftet
Antall sider
264

Om bidragsyterne

Harold Holzer is vice president for external affairs at the Metropolitan Museum of Art and the author or editor of several books, including Lincoln at Cooper Union. Gabor Boritt, Robert C. Fluhrer Professor of Civil War Studies and director of the Civil War Institute at Gettysburg College, is the author of The Lincoln Enigma and other books. Mark E. Neely Jr., McCabe Greer Professor of History at Pennsylvania State University, is the author of The Last Best Hope of Earth: Abraham Lincoln and the Promise of America and other books.