Prang's Civil War Pictures: The Complete Battle Chromos of Louis Prang - With the Full "Descriptive Texts"
de Harold Holzer
- Usado
- Tapa dura
- Firmado
- First
- Estado
- Very Good+/Very Good+
- ISBN 10
- 0823221180
- ISBN 13
- 9780823221189
- Librería
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A very good signed and inscribed first edition, first printing of Prang's Civil War Pictures. Edited and with an Introction by Harold Holzer, a renowned Abraham Lincoln scholar. Holzer signed this copy on the occasion of delivering the Heroes of History Lecture for the National Endowment for the Humanities at Ford's Theatre in Washington, DC in 2004.
For Andrew,
With thanks for making me feel like a hero at the "Heroes" lecture in Washington, October 18, 2004
Harold Holzer
See: https://www.neh.gov/news/press-release/2004-09-09
C-SPAN recording of Holzer's lecture in 2004: https://www.c-span.org/video/?183979-1/lincoln-presidency
From the jacket:
During the 1880s, a German-born, Boston-based picture publisher successfully commissioned the most ambitious series of battle prints ever published. Louis Prang, best known as the "father of the Christmas card," hired noted military and marine artists to create original scenes of combat, and then reproduced their works in a wildly popular portfolio of chromolithographs. He called the set Prang's War Pictures.
They were offered to an eager public accompanied by "descriptive texts" that told the story of each engagement through eyewitness recollection by the heroes of each action. The set proved both appealing and influential, selling vigorously in various editions for a generation, and elevating the stature of military illustration in America. For 20 years, Civil War prints for the masses had featured uninspired, one-dimensional views of armies in hand-to-hand combat.Prang and his artists demonstrated genuine skill and imaginative perspective. They showed both real carnage and important technological advances, revealing both the broad sweep of panoramic battlefields and the intimate action of individual combatants.
These famously sepia-toned chromos went on to become familiar illustrations in books and magazines-often offered as definitive examples of Civil War art. But until now, the complete set of 18 chromos has never been collected in a single volume. And the original "Descriptive Texts" first offered Prang's customers as marketing brochures to boost sales-a priceless historical archive in and of themselves-have never been published since, anywhere.Holzer reunites pictures and texts in an authoritative, milestone volume orchestrating prints and descriptions that resurrect Prang's original conception of battle art for the masses for a new generation.
The book also features reproductions of the original works of art that inspired the prints, created on commission by battle painter Thure de Thulstrup and naval specialist Julian Oliver Davidson-now housed in art collections around the country-but seldom seen since they were commissioned by Prang as models for his ambitious chromolithographs.
This long-needed complete Prang portfolio will undoubtedly become an essential collectible for Civil War aficionados in the country, as well as for libraries and university collections increasingly aware of the importance of art and iconography in defining the Civil War experience and the impact of Civil War memory.
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Detalles
- Librería
- The New Modern (US)
- Inventario del vendedor #
- 20230804142222
- Título
- Prang's Civil War Pictures
- Autor
- Harold Holzer
- Ilustrador
- Louis Prang
- Estado del libro
- Usado - Very Good+
- Estado de la sobrecubierta
- Very Good+
- Cantidad disponible
- 1
- Edición
- First
- Encuadernación
- Tapa dura
- ISBN 10
- 0823221180
- ISBN 13
- 9780823221189
- Editorial
- Fordham University Press
- Lugar de publicación
- New York
- Fecha de publicación
- 2001
- Palabras clave
- Civil War, Art, Louis Prang, Art History, American Art
- Catálogos del vendedor
- History;
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