Painting America's Portrait - How Illustrators Created Their Art, by James C. Thompson

Look Inside! Author: James C. Thompson | Show Publication detailsHide Publication details Cloth Edition: ISBN: 978-1-943642-11-3 Size: 9 x 12 Pages: 334 Images: 290 Color and B&W Release Date: 20 October 2016 Retail Price: $60.00 Painting America’s Portrait – How Illustrators Created Their Art is the first in a two-book set. In this book, author James Thompson shows how advances in image production and reproduction technologies during the last decades of the 19th century and the first decade of the 20th century improved the appearance and effectiveness of advertising and illustration art. Mark Twain called it “the Gilded Age”. During these years, America industrialized, its leading corporations began national marketing campaigns, and the American public transformed into consumers. And producers of manufactured and printed products began employing illustrators to sell them. America’s artist admen and storytellers responded by creating increasingly colorful and appealing image