The Lincoln Image
ABRAHAM LINCOLN AND THE POPULAR PRINT
Harold Holzer author Gabor S Boritt author Mark E Neely Jr author
Format:Paperback
Publisher:University of Illinois Press
Published:15th Sep '05
Currently unavailable, and unfortunately no date known when it will be back
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.How printmakers chronicled and influenced Lincoln's transfiguration into an American icon
"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
ISBN: 9780252069840
Dimensions: 279mm x 216mm x 28mm
Weight: 626g
264 pages