After the Civil War many artists, inc. Homer, Church and Moran, created images of America's scenic wonders and landscape icons, which, along with ars objects, literature, photos and other ephemera, helped make the landscape a source of national pride. Hotel owners, railroads, advertisers and landscape developers also used art objects and mass-produced images to promote tourism. This established the US landscape as the source of national character traits like innocence, independence, ingenuity and pragmatism, forging a ...
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After the Civil War many artists, inc. Homer, Church and Moran, created images of America's scenic wonders and landscape icons, which, along with ars objects, literature, photos and other ephemera, helped make the landscape a source of national pride. Hotel owners, railroads, advertisers and landscape developers also used art objects and mass-produced images to promote tourism. This established the US landscape as the source of national character traits like innocence, independence, ingenuity and pragmatism, forging a unique American identity. The Cooper-Hewitt National Design Museum will showcase, for the first time in more than 20 years, their collection of more than 2000 paintings and drawings inc. the largest number of Homer and Church objects in the world. 5 essays accompany more than 200 illustrations, showing how these artists' depictions of America helped create a notion of America as a land of purity and beauty, harmony and opportunity. Recent events at home and abroad have shown that the identity of the US as a nation is especially relevant today and this book sheds new light on the genesis and evolution of the national character through iconic imagery.
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Good. Bumps to cover corners. Scratches/marks/creasing to dustjacket, scuffs to edges & fading at spine. Marks to textblock edges. Light tanning around page edges. Content very good. Sewn binding. Paper over boards. With dust jacket. 180 p. Contains: Unspecified.
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Like New in Like New jacket. First Edition, First Printing. Not price-clipped ($50.00 price intact). Published by Smithsonian, 2006. Quarto. White boards stamped in black and green. Book is like new; clean with no writing or names. Sharp corners and spine straight. Binding tight and pages crisp. Dust jacket is like new. 180 pages. ISBN: 0821257862. 100% positive feedback. 30 day money back guarantee. NEXT DAY SHIPPING! Excellent customer service. Please email with any questions or if you would like a photo. All books packed carefully and ship with free delivery confirmation/tracking. All books come with free bookmarks. Ships from Southampton, New York.
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Very Good+ in a Very Good+ price clipped dust jacket. Remainder mark on bottom text block edge. Tape at top of rear panel.; 11.1 X 8.9 X 0.9 inches; 192 pages.
