The Lincoln Image documents how popular prints helped make Lincoln's a household face, deliberately crafting the image of a man of the people, someone with whom an ordinary American could identify. Featuring the work of Currier and Ives, John Sartain, and other artists and printmakers, this lavishly illustrated volume pairs original photographs and paintings with the prints made from them. That juxtaposition shows how printmakers reworked the original images to refine Lincoln's appearance. In several prints, his image replaces those of earlier politicians (the nineteenth-century equivalent of being "airbrushed in"); in others, a beard has been added to images that originally appeared clean-shaven. 
Focusing on prints produced in Lincoln's lifetime and in the iconographically important months immediately following his death, The Lincoln Image also includes wartime cartoons, Lincoln family portraits (most of which appeared after the assassination), and renderings of the fateful moment of the shooting at Ford's Theatre. In addition to discussing the prints themselves, prominent Lincoln scholars Harold Holzer, Gabor S. Boritt, and Mark E. Neely Jr. examine the political environment of the nineteenth century that sustained a market for political prints, showing how politics offered spectacle, ritual, and amusement to a nation without organized sports and with only a rudimentary entertainment industry. 
A fascinating examination of the relationship between Lincoln's image, the printmakers' craft, and the political culture that helped shape them both, The Lincoln Image documents how printmakers both chronicled and shaped Lincoln's transfiguration into an American icon.

The Lincoln Image: ABRAHAM LINCOLN AND THE POPULAR PRINT

Arts & Photography

Holzer, Harold

Boritt, Gabor S.

Neely Jr., Mark E.

Graphic Design

University of Illinois Press

Lincoln and the Economics of the American Dream

This unique exploration of Lincoln's economic beliefs shows how they helped shape his view of slavery, his conduct of the war, and most fundamentally his understanding of what the United States was and could become. ''A comprehensive and enlightening survey of the evolution of Lincoln's economic thought.''-- Reviews in American History ''Boritt illuminates Lincoln's understanding of 'equality' as well as the meaning of the concept in Lincoln's political economy.''-- New York Review of Books ''This is a rare book that deserves superlatives . . . brilliant and original''-- Pennsylvania Magazine of History ''A major contribution.''-- Journal of Economic History

Biographies & Memoirs

Historical

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.

Photography & Video

Over one hundred prints and photographs document the efforts of printmakers who attempted to make Lincoln's face immediately recognizable in a time when newspaper photographs were nonexistant

The Lincoln Image: Abraham Lincoln and the Popular Print

Neely, Mark E.

Scribner

First published in 1987, The Confederate Image examines the popular lithographs and engravings cherished by Southerners during and after the Civil War. These images helped sustain and revive Southern identity following the collapse of the Confederacy. (Though, ironically, most were actually crafted by Northern artisans.) The book focuses on prints of the three most prominent Southern figures of the conflict--Robert E. Lee, Jefferson Davis, and Stonewall Jackson--but also discusses prints of other important Confederates as well as the contributions of the short-lived Southern Illustrated News. "A well-researched and interesting sidelight into a world of illusion.--New York Times Book Review "More than just a picture book. . . . [It] tells a fascinating story of the creation of these images and how they added to or, at times, ran counter to the creation of the myth that is known as the Lost Cause.--Chicago Tribune

The Confederate Image: Prints of the Lost Cause (Civil War America)

Travel

The University of North Carolina Press

Book by Mark E. Jr. Harold Holzer et al Neely

The Confederate Image: Prints of the Lost Cause

Neely, Mark E., Jr.

University of North Carolina Press

Collections, Catalogs & Exhibitions

Univ of North Carolina Pr

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