Printmaking in New Orleans

by Poesch, Jessie J.

• ISBN13: 9781578067688
• ISBN10: 1578067685
• Format: Hardcover
• Copyright: 2006-08-30
• Publisher: Univ Pr of Mississippi

Summary

"The book traces the development of printmaking from colonial times through the present and features considerable biographical information about the printmakers themselves."--BOOK JACKET.

Table of Contents

Introduction: Printmaking in New Orleans	p. 9
Publicizing a Vast New Land: Visual Propaganda for Attracting Colonists to Eighteenth-Century Louisiana	p. 52
Walking the Streets of New Orleans: Printed Maps and Street Scenes	p. 68
"The Art Preservative of All Arts": Early Printing in New Orleans	p. 86
A Pelican's-Eye View: The Urban Growth of New Orleans Through Bird's-Eye Views	p. 102
A New Plane: Pre-Civil War Lithography in New Orleans	p. 116
Playing New Orleans: The City's Neighborhoods and Sheet Music	p. 136
A Louisiana Architect's Prints and Drawings: The Works of Marie Adrien Persac, 1832-1873	p. 148
Jules Lion, F.M.C.: Lithographer Extraordinaire	p. 160
Local Color: Chromolithography in New Orleans	p. 176
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