The Graduate Center - City University of New York

Prints

Georgia Barnhill, Curator of Graphic Arts Emerita at the American Antiquarian Society, discusses the popular prints that were published during the Civil War and considers the ways they were used as decoration, education, commemoration, illustration, and propaganda. This talk took place on July 17, 2012, as part of The Visual Culture of the American Civil War, an NEH Summer Institute for College and University Teachers.

Bibliography

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Neely, Mark E., and Holzer, Harold. The Union Image: Popular Prints of the Civil War North. Chapel Hill, 2000.

Holzer, Harold, Borritt, Gabor S., and Neely, Mark E. The Confederate Image: Prints of the Lost Cause. Chapel Hill, 1987.

Le Beau, Bryan F. Currier and Ives: America Imagined. Washington, D.C., 2001.

Marzio, Peter C. The Democratic Art: Pictures for a 19th-­‐Century America: Chromolithography, 1840-­1900. Fort Worth, 1979.