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

Should be back in stock very soon

The Lincoln Image cover

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