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9781943642137 English 1943642133 "Painting America's Portrait - How Illustrators Created Their Art" is the first in a two-book series. Here James Thompson uses over 300 famous and forgotten illustrations to show how America's artist admen and storytellers harnessed changes in corporate advertising and advances in image reproduction technology to create increasingly dramatic and colorful images. Their corporate patrons used these works to sell products to the American consumers they also manufactured.Mr. Thompson begins this pictorial narrative with the westward migration that followed the Civil War. Thompson shows the Wild West being pacified, industrialists transforming the nation from a tapestry of agricultural communities into a whizzing commercial network, burgeoning cities filling with hopeful immigrants, and corporations growing into national manufacturing/marketing machines. Mark Twain called it the Gilded Age. Some remembered those times in terms of the corruption and extravagance of the moguls who built the country's railroads, factories, newspapers, and seemingly everything else of material consequence. Others idolize the poor, honest laborers who toiled in its smoke-belching factories. Mr. Thompson focuses on a neglected third segment of the Gild Age's stratified society. Corporatization created America's aspiring, upwardly mobile middle class. Thompson pictures it as the backbone of America's consumer system and the target of its endless corporate promotions.Having illustrated the progress of technology and commerce, Mr. Thompson focuses on the two primary arts of illustration. First, he shows America's artist admen developing their skill. By the turn of the century, they had the tools and were good enough to incorporate psychology in their graphics. By the beginning of the 20th century, they were making consumers envision themselves in terms of the products they saw in advertisements. While admen encouraged consumers to internalize products, artist storytellers were drawing readers out of themselves into the adventures of authors and yarn spinners. They did this by picturing impending action.The Golden Age of Illustration had reached this glamorous peak when war broke out in Europe. America's artist admen and storytellers then entered the service of their country., Author James Thompson claims that the inspiration for his new book is his love of the art America's illustrators created during their Golden Age. Mr. Thompson assembled its collection of cartoons, paintings, and posters for a series of presentations his made at the Wilmington branch of University of Delaware. One hundred years ago, Wilmington was the capital of American illustration. In his pictorial narrative, Mr. Thompson traces the evolution of this storytelling art through what Mark Twain described as "The Gilded Are." The transformations he highlights substantiate his contention that the men and women who created these fascinating works did more than pitch products and supplement stories. The book shows how advertising and book art evolved as the American economy expanded and became more structured. Mr. Thompson connects these changes to advances in technologies, which eventually made it possible for artist to mass-produce vividly colorful images. The author explains that these advances made illustrators experts in creating demand for America products and shaping public opinion. Mr. Thompson contends that the greatest endeavor in the Golden Age of American Illustration was to create public support for an unpopular new public policy, being Woodrow Wilson's decision to join England and her allies in their war against Germany. To promote pubic support for this controversial cause, the United States government recruited American illustrators to create images of Americans' love of Freedom, the American Spirit, "our boys of there," and the dedicated women who supported them behind the lines. During World War One. it turns out, American illustrators created a self-image that Americans embraced for the of the 20th Century., IIn this fabulously colorful book, author James Thompson uses 325 carefully selected images to tell the fascinating story of America's signature form of art. The author traces its development from the opening of the American West, through the Gilded Age, through the mobilization and heroism of the First World War, through the Roaring Twenties to the Depression when the bands stopped playing. Mr. Thompson shows how American illustrators enticed their countrymen to become consumers and readers. He shows the storm erupting in Europe. He explains that when German provocations finally drew America into the "war to end all wars" in the spring of 1917, America's illustrators were among the first recruits. Their first job was to attract young men into army and young women into civil agencies to support the men in the field. A legion of gifted artists responded, producing posters and paintings that pictured "the land of the free and the home of brave." These images defined America for two generations. Mr. Thompson incorporates into his story a rarely found summary of how advancing technology made it possible to mass-produce color images. He concludes with brief biographies of the artists who produced the pictures in the text., In this fabulously colorful book, author James Thompson uses 325 carefully selected images to tell the fascinating story of America s signature form of art. The author traces its development from the opening of the American West, through the Gilded Age, through the mobilization and heroism of the First World War, through the Roaring Twenties to the Depression when the bands stopped playing. Thompson shows how American illustrators enticed their countrymen to become consumers and readers. He shows the storm erupting in Europe. He explains that when German provocations finally drew America into the war to end all wars in the spring of 1917, America s illustrators were among the first recruits. Their job to attract young men into army and young women into civil agencies to support the men in the field. A legion of gifted artists responded, producing posters and paintings that pictured the land of the free and the home of brave. These images defined America for two generations. Thompson incorporates into his story a rarely found summary of how advancing technology made it possible to mass produce color images. He concludes the book with biographical summaries of the artists who produced the pictures in the text."
9781943642137 English 1943642133 "Painting America's Portrait - How Illustrators Created Their Art" is the first in a two-book series. Here James Thompson uses over 300 famous and forgotten illustrations to show how America's artist admen and storytellers harnessed changes in corporate advertising and advances in image reproduction technology to create increasingly dramatic and colorful images. Their corporate patrons used these works to sell products to the American consumers they also manufactured.Mr. Thompson begins this pictorial narrative with the westward migration that followed the Civil War. Thompson shows the Wild West being pacified, industrialists transforming the nation from a tapestry of agricultural communities into a whizzing commercial network, burgeoning cities filling with hopeful immigrants, and corporations growing into national manufacturing/marketing machines. Mark Twain called it the Gilded Age. Some remembered those times in terms of the corruption and extravagance of the moguls who built the country's railroads, factories, newspapers, and seemingly everything else of material consequence. Others idolize the poor, honest laborers who toiled in its smoke-belching factories. Mr. Thompson focuses on a neglected third segment of the Gild Age's stratified society. Corporatization created America's aspiring, upwardly mobile middle class. Thompson pictures it as the backbone of America's consumer system and the target of its endless corporate promotions.Having illustrated the progress of technology and commerce, Mr. Thompson focuses on the two primary arts of illustration. First, he shows America's artist admen developing their skill. By the turn of the century, they had the tools and were good enough to incorporate psychology in their graphics. By the beginning of the 20th century, they were making consumers envision themselves in terms of the products they saw in advertisements. While admen encouraged consumers to internalize products, artist storytellers were drawing readers out of themselves into the adventures of authors and yarn spinners. They did this by picturing impending action.The Golden Age of Illustration had reached this glamorous peak when war broke out in Europe. America's artist admen and storytellers then entered the service of their country., Author James Thompson claims that the inspiration for his new book is his love of the art America's illustrators created during their Golden Age. Mr. Thompson assembled its collection of cartoons, paintings, and posters for a series of presentations his made at the Wilmington branch of University of Delaware. One hundred years ago, Wilmington was the capital of American illustration. In his pictorial narrative, Mr. Thompson traces the evolution of this storytelling art through what Mark Twain described as "The Gilded Are." The transformations he highlights substantiate his contention that the men and women who created these fascinating works did more than pitch products and supplement stories. The book shows how advertising and book art evolved as the American economy expanded and became more structured. Mr. Thompson connects these changes to advances in technologies, which eventually made it possible for artist to mass-produce vividly colorful images. The author explains that these advances made illustrators experts in creating demand for America products and shaping public opinion. Mr. Thompson contends that the greatest endeavor in the Golden Age of American Illustration was to create public support for an unpopular new public policy, being Woodrow Wilson's decision to join England and her allies in their war against Germany. To promote pubic support for this controversial cause, the United States government recruited American illustrators to create images of Americans' love of Freedom, the American Spirit, "our boys of there," and the dedicated women who supported them behind the lines. During World War One. it turns out, American illustrators created a self-image that Americans embraced for the of the 20th Century., IIn this fabulously colorful book, author James Thompson uses 325 carefully selected images to tell the fascinating story of America's signature form of art. The author traces its development from the opening of the American West, through the Gilded Age, through the mobilization and heroism of the First World War, through the Roaring Twenties to the Depression when the bands stopped playing. Mr. Thompson shows how American illustrators enticed their countrymen to become consumers and readers. He shows the storm erupting in Europe. He explains that when German provocations finally drew America into the "war to end all wars" in the spring of 1917, America's illustrators were among the first recruits. Their first job was to attract young men into army and young women into civil agencies to support the men in the field. A legion of gifted artists responded, producing posters and paintings that pictured "the land of the free and the home of brave." These images defined America for two generations. Mr. Thompson incorporates into his story a rarely found summary of how advancing technology made it possible to mass-produce color images. He concludes with brief biographies of the artists who produced the pictures in the text., In this fabulously colorful book, author James Thompson uses 325 carefully selected images to tell the fascinating story of America s signature form of art. The author traces its development from the opening of the American West, through the Gilded Age, through the mobilization and heroism of the First World War, through the Roaring Twenties to the Depression when the bands stopped playing. Thompson shows how American illustrators enticed their countrymen to become consumers and readers. He shows the storm erupting in Europe. He explains that when German provocations finally drew America into the war to end all wars in the spring of 1917, America s illustrators were among the first recruits. Their job to attract young men into army and young women into civil agencies to support the men in the field. A legion of gifted artists responded, producing posters and paintings that pictured the land of the free and the home of brave. These images defined America for two generations. Thompson incorporates into his story a rarely found summary of how advancing technology made it possible to mass produce color images. He concludes the book with biographical summaries of the artists who produced the pictures in the text."