Author: Library Company of PhiladelphiaPublisher: The Library Company of Phil
ISBN: 9780914076520
Category : Art
Languages : en
Pages : 124
Book Description
Made in America: Printmaking, 1760-1860
Author: Library Company of PhiladelphiaPublisher: The Library Company of Phil
ISBN: 9780914076520
Category : Art
Languages : en
Pages : 124
Book Description
Prints and Printmakers of New York State, 1825-1940
Author: David TathamPublisher: Syracuse University Press
ISBN: 9780815602040
Category : Art
Languages : en
Pages : 304
Book Description
For well over a century, New York has been a microcosm of the art and craft of American printmaking. Until 1825, printmaking in America was almost entirely an artisan's craft. Then, with the arrival of lithography, the realization arose that printmaking could also be a fine art. The essays published in this collection contribute to the body of scholarship by identifying important but hitherto insufficiently studied aspects of the graphic arts and treating them authoritatively. Their subjects concern prints in New York State, whose great metropolitan city was, after 1825, the acknowledged center of nearly everything important in the graphic arts in the U.S. The history of American prints from 1825 on is enormously rich, yet until the 1970s it was the least studied and understood aspect of the history of art in North America. It is a history more deeply rooted in popular culture and more closely tied, for a long time, to the world of commerce than the other arts. The usually small-scale, sometimes ephemeral, and often highly subtle (or highly unsubtle) nature of prints makes it easy to overlook them. The collection of essays included here were originally presented at the Twelfth Annual North American Print Conference, held in 1981 in Syracuse, New York. Locally organized, these conferences have been held during the last decade throughout the U.S. and Canada to further the study of the history of the pictorial graphic arts in North America. Contributors include several leading historians of the graphic arts of nineteenth-century America. Their chapters bring to life and flesh out figures who were previously little more than names, establish facts that correct long-held erroneous assumptions, introduce many prints of exceptional interest that have remained out of the public view for generations, and provide a rich, new context for many familiar images.
Prints of a New Kind
Author: Allison M. StaggPublisher: Penn State Press
ISBN: 0271094605
Category : Art
Languages : en
Pages : 367
Book Description
Prints of a New Kind details the political strategies and scandals that inspired the first generation of American caricaturists to share news and opinions with their audiences in shockingly radical ways. Complementing studies on British and European printmaking, this book is a survey and catalogue of all known American political caricatures created in the country’s transformative early years, as the nation sought to define itself in relation to European models of governance and artistry. Allison Stagg examines printed caricatures that mocked events reported in newspapers and politicians in the United States’ fledgling government, reactions captured in the personal papers of the politicians being satirized, and the lives of the artists who satirized them. Stagg’s work fills a large gap in early American scholarship, one that has escaped thorough art-historical attention because of the rarity of extant images and the lack of understanding of how these images fit into their political context. Featuring 125 images, many published here for the first time since their original appearance, and a comprehensive appendix that includes a checklist of caricature prints with dates, titles, artists, references, and other essential information, Prints of a New Kind will be welcomed by scholars and students of early American history and art history as well as visual, material, and print culture.
Views and Viewmakers of Urban America
Author: John William RepsPublisher: University of Missouri Press
ISBN: 0826204163
Category : Canada
Languages : en
Pages : 594
Book Description
Union list catalog of the lithographic views of cities and towns made during the 19th century.
Philadelphia Revisions
Author: Kenneth FinkelPublisher: The Library Company of Phil
ISBN: 9780914076711
Category : Art
Languages : en
Pages : 56
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An American Icon
Author: Winifred MorganPublisher: University of Delaware Press
ISBN: 9780874133073
Category : Biography & Autobiography
Languages : en
Pages : 236
Book Description
The top hat and stars and stripes that characterize Uncle Sam today were first worn by Yankee actors portraying Brother Jonathan. This book explores the complex emblematic function of the Brother Jonathan figure and its changing meaning through the decades and in a multitude of popular media.
Library Company of Philadelphia: 2000 Annual Report
Author: Publisher: The Library Company of Phil
ISBN: 9781422373125
Category :
Languages : en
Pages : 108
Book Description
Library Company of Philadelphia: 1986 Annual Report
Author: Publisher: The Library Company of Phil
ISBN: 9781422361191
Category :
Languages : en
Pages : 148
Book Description
Library Company of Philadelphia: 2001 Annual Report
Author: Publisher: The Library Company of Phil
ISBN: 9781422373132
Category :
Languages : en
Pages : 112
Book Description
Library Company of Philadelphia: 1998 Annual Report
Author: Publisher: The Library Company of Phil
ISBN: 9781422373101
Category :
Languages : en
Pages : 72
Book Description