Author: Edwin Forbes
Publisher: Courier Dover Publications
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Category : Architecture
Languages : en
Pages : 104
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"This Dover edition, first published in 1994, reproduces all 40 original etchings from the portfolio Life studies of the Great Army, published by Edwin Forbes in New York, n.d.[1876] ..."--T.p.verso.
Author: Mark E. Neely, Jr.
Publisher: UNC Press Books
ISBN: 9780807849057
Category : Design
Languages : en
Pages : 300
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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 Confedera
Author: Adalbert John Volck
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Languages : en
Pages :
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Author: Mark E. Neely
Publisher: UNC Press Books
ISBN: 9780807825105
Category : Design
Languages : en
Pages : 312
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Focusing on the popular prints used by the Northern side of the American Civil War, this book examines the importance of graphic arts in rallying support for the Union during the war and in shaping the national memory after the war.
Author: Adalbert John Volck
Publisher:
ISBN:
Category : Caricatures and cartoons
Languages : en
Pages : 112
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Author: V. Blad
Publisher: Josephs Press
ISBN: 1408698951
Category : History
Languages : en
Pages : 100
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Many of the earliest books, particularly those dating back to the 1900s and before, are now extremely scarce and increasingly expensive. We are republishing these classic works in affordable, high quality, modern editions, using the original text and artwork.
Author: Mark E. Neely
Publisher:
ISBN: 9780807841976
Category : Confederate States of America
Languages : en
Pages : 257
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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."
Author: Edwin Forbes
Publisher: LSU Press
ISBN: 080711877X
Category : History
Languages : en
Pages : 366
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Edwin Forbes’s Thirty Years After is surely one of the most remarkable firsthand accounts of the Civil War ever published. Originally issued in 1890--thus the title--the lavish, oversized book is both a pictorial and a written record of the daily experience of war. It contains almost two hundred etchings of Civil War scenes along with twenty equestrian portraits of Union generals such as Grant, Sherman, McClellan, and Custer, reproduced from oil paintings. The present edition is a facsimile of the original, with the addition of an Introduction by William J. Cooper, Jr, who discusses the significance of the books and provides a biographical sketch of Edwin Forbes and information about the role of journalists in the war. Forbes, born in New York City in 1839, was a staff artist for Frank Leslie’s Illustrated Newspaper. On assignment for the paper, Forbes traveled with the federal army from the battle of Cross Keys, in 1862, to the siege of Petersburg, in 1864. A keen observer, Forbes sketched battlefields, campsites, and other scenes that he later rendered in relief etchings on copper plate. Some of the etchings were published in a portfolio in 1876. For the much larger Thirty Years After, Forbes executed scores of additional etchings and wrote an informative text to go with them. The book is divided into dozens of brief chapters, with each chapter’s text serving to introduce and explain the accompanying illustrations. Although Forbes made drawings of officers, he was clearly more interested in depicting the common soldier. His evocative etchings show such scenes as a regiment marching into camp at nightfall, an artillery reserve rolling into action at Cemetery Hill, a cavalry charge at Brandy Station, a band of prisoners lined up for execution, positioned so that they would tumble directly into their coffins. Forbes did not flinch from portraying the full terror and force of combat, but he also clearly understood that soldiering was not a one-dimensional experience. Many of his studies reveal the almost-forgotten minutiae of war. He shows soldiers engaged in such ordinary activities as preparing meals, laundering uniforms, avidly reading about events at him whenever newspapers were available, and relaxing between skirmishes. His illustrations also depict supply trains, pontoon bridges, army hospitals, and slaver cabins. In drawings of Confederate soldiers, Forbes emphasizes the comradely bond that sometimes could develop between opposing sides. A particularly telling etching shows Confederate pickets exchanging tobacco for coffee with their Union counterparts. For the modern reader, this visually arresting book offers a unique perspective on the Civil War.
Author: Library Of Congress Library Of Congress
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Category : History
Languages : en
Pages : 132
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This album of 55 full-page reproductions of American prints, drawings, and photographs depicts scenes of the Civil War. Most of the illustrations are battles, though some are portraits, and others are views of military life. Originally published as part of a larger book, "An Album of American Battle Art," based on an exhibition at the library of Congress, this is the first time these illustrations have appeared in an affordable paperback edition
Author: Don Troiani
Publisher: Stackpole Books
ISBN: 0811727157
Category : Art
Languages : en
Pages : 223
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Featuring renowned artist-historian Don Troiani's careful research, painstaking attention to detail, and dramatic style.
