Enjoy the best in Americana with this Tiny Folios(TM) collection of Currier & Ives prints from the 1800s. The Great Book of Currier and Ives' America, Tiny Folios edition, features the largest number of Currier & Ives prints ever reproduced in a single volume, as well as many that have never been published. It contains more than three hundred illustrations in full color. In the 1800s, long before the days of photojournalism and television, colorful up-to-date pictures of news events, portraits of important political and social figures, and scenic views of American natural wonders were circulating widely all through the country. From early in the exciting century that saw a small nation expand into a mighty world power, the famous lithographic firm of Nathaniel Currier and James Merritt Ives produced over 7,000 lithographs picturing scenes of American life, portraits of American leaders, and dramatic re-creations of the events that make the news of the day. Each Currier & Ives print was individually colored by hand, and the skilled craftsmanship as well as keenness of observation make Currier & Ives prints among the most collectible of Americana.
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Für höhere Schule und Studium
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Höhe: 115 mm
Breite: 103 mm
Dicke: 20 mm
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978-1-55859-229-2 (9781558592292)
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Schweitzer Klassifikation
Walton Rawls is the author of several books in the field of American popular culture, most notably Wake Up, America!: World War I and the American Poster. Trained at Harvard in American history and literature, Rawls was a contributor to the Oxford Companion to American Military History and is a member of Atlanta's Civil War Round Table.
Table of Contents from: The Great Book of Currier and Ives' America "The Grand Central Depot for Cheap and Popular Prints" Novus Ordo Seelorum ("A New Era is Born") "Proud and passionate city! mettlesome, mad extravagamt city!" "How dear to my heart are the scenes of my childhood" "...our manifest destiny to overspread the continent allotted by Providence" "Be it ever so humble, theres no place like home" "Thou, too, sail on. O Ship of State! Sail on, O Union, strong and great!" "Go forth, under the open sky, and list to Natures teachings" "...America is a poem in our eyes: its ample geography dazzles the imagination" "Never was such horseflesh as in those days on Long Island or in the City" "...every prospect pleases, and only man is vile"
