Currier And Ives: Printmakers to the American People (Used Hardcover) - Harry T. Peters

Currier and Ives were businessmen and craftsmen. Ives. at least as some claims as an artist, but primarily they are mirrors of the national taste weathervanes of popular opinion. Reflectors of American attitudes in the years from 1835-1907. In their prints can be found the whole florid panorama of our national life in the mid-nineteenth century, for the baroque elegance of urbans mores to the idyllic simplicities of our country life and the gaucherie of a land acutely aware of its frontier. This, we have prints showing fashionable turnouts in Central Park, Thanksgiving celebrations in New England and the perils of the crossing the plains.

Condition: Hardcover is in good condition with some wear on the original dust jacket, including some tears and staining.