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Texas Lithographs: A Century of History in Images de Ron Tyler

Texas Lithographs: A Century of History in Images

Autor Ron Tyler
en Limba Engleză Hardback – 28 feb 2023

Adresăm acest volum istoricilor, cercetătorilor în cultura vizuală și colecționarilor care caută o documentare riguroasă a expansiunii americane către vest. Credem că Texas Lithographs reprezintă o resursă academică de prim rang, reușind să recupereze rolul esențial al litografiei în promovarea colonizării și a investițiilor într-un Texas aflat la începuturi. Subliniem faptul că, înainte de dominația fotografiei, aceste imagini multiplicate industrial au fost cele care au construit mitul „unui paradis al oportunităților”.

Structura lucrării este una cronologică și tematică, debutând cu analiza Texasului hispanic și mexican, trecând prin perioada Republicii și a războiului cu Mexicul, până la impactul major al căilor ferate. Cuprinsul indică o progresie clară de la „terra incognita” la un stat integrat economic, evidențiind modul în care litografiile au servit drept instrumente de marketing pentru imigranți. Această lucrare completează perspectiva oferită de Narrating the Landscape de Matt Johnston, adăugând o focalizare regională exhaustivă și un corpus impresionant de 461 de ilustrații color, acolo unde Johnston se concentra pe relația generală dintre tehnologia de imprimare și peisajul american.

În contextul operei sale, Ron Tyler rafinează aici temele explorate în The Art of Texas, trecând de la o privire de ansamblu asupra a 250 de ani de artă la o analiză tehnică și sociologică a unui mediu specific. Dacă în The War Between the United States and Mexico, Illustrated autorul se concentra pe un conflict punctual, în acest volum extinde cadrul analitic asupra întregului secol al XIX-lea, oferind ceea ce este, probabil, cea mai completă arhivă vizuală a statului Texas.

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Specificații

ISBN-13: 9781477326084
ISBN-10: 1477326081
Pagini: 640
Ilustrații: 461 color illus.
Dimensiuni: 254 x 254 x 41 mm
Greutate: 2.58 kg
Editura: University of Texas Press
Colecția University of Texas Press

De ce să citești această carte

Recomandăm această lucrare oricărui pasionat de istorie americană care dorește să înțeleagă cum se construiește identitatea vizuală a unui teritoriu. Cititorul câștigă acces la o colecție muzeală de litografii rare, însoțite de o analiză critică semnată de un expert de renume. Este un instrument esențial pentru a înțelege tranziția de la ilustrația de mână la cultura vizuală de masă, într-un format grafic de excepție.

Despre autor

Ron Tyler este o figură centrală în studiul istoriei și artei americane, fiind director emerit al Muzeului de Artă Americană Amon Carter din Fort Worth. Experiența sa academică este vastă, servind ca profesor de istorie și director al Centrului pentru Studii în Istoria Texasului la University of Texas din Austin. Cu peste douăzeci de volume publicate, Tyler a dedicat zeci de ani cercetării modului în care arta documentează transformările sociale și politice din Vestul American și Mexic, expertiza sa fiind recunoscută prin numeroase distincții de specialitate.

Descriere scurtă

2024 Ewell L. Newman Book Award, American Historical Print Collectors Society
2024 Kate Broocks Bates Award for Historical Research, Texas State Historical Association​
2024 TCU Texas Book Prize, Friends of the TCU Library and the TCU Press
2024 Kempner Family Book Prize—Nonfiction,The Philosophical Society of Texas
A stunning and comprehensive collection of lithographs from 1818 to 1900 Texas.
Westward expansion in the United States was deeply intertwined with the technological revolutions of the nineteenth century, from telegraphy to railroads. Among the most important of these, if often forgotten, was the lithograph. Before photography became a dominant medium, lithography—and later, chromolithography—enabled inexpensive reproduction of color illustrations, transforming journalism and marketing and nurturing, for the first time, a global visual culture. One of the great subjects of the lithography boom was an emerging Euro-American colony in the Americas: Texas.
The most complete collection of its kind—and quite possibly the most complete visual record of nineteenth-century Texas, period—Texas Lithographs is a gateway to the history of the Lone Star State in its most formative period. Ron Tyler assembles works from 1818 to 1900, many created by outsiders and newcomers promoting investment and settlement in Texas. Whether they depict the early French colony of Champ d’Asile, the Republic of Texas, and the war with Mexico, or urban growth, frontier exploration, and the key figures of a nascent Euro-American empire, the images collected here reflect an Eden of opportunity—a fairy-tale dream that remains foundational to Texans’ sense of self and to the world’s sense of Texas.

Notă biografică

The author or coauthor of numerous works of visual history, Ron Tyler is the retired director of the Amon Carter Museum of American Art in Fort Worth. He formerly served as director of the Texas State Historical Association, professor of history at the University of Texas at Austin, and editor of the Southwestern Historical Quarterly and The New Handbook of Texas.

Cuprins

  • Introduction: “We Can Read the Pictures”
  • 1. “Really a Kind of Paradise”: Hispanic and Mexican Texas
  • 2. “A More Perfect Fac-simile of Things”: The Republic of Texas
  • 3. “Illustrations of a Cheap Character”: Annexation and War with Mexico
  • 4. “A Perfect Terra Incognita”: Surveys of Texas
  • 5. “Pretty Pictures . . . ‘Candy’ for the Immigrants”: Illustrating the State
  • 6. “The Dark Corner of the Confederacy”: Civil War and Reconstruction in Texas
  • 7. “The Enterprise Was Not Properly Appreciated”: The Growth of Lithography in Texas
  • 8. “The ‘Image Breakers’”: Mending the Reputation
  • 9. “The truth is Texas is what her railroads have made her”
  • Epilogue: “Mistaken . . . for Lithograph Work”
  • Acknowledgments
  • Notes
  • Index

Recenzii

This beautifully produced book is an instant classic of Texana, and a must-have for print collectors. The astonishing images gathered here—ranging from documentary maps and portraits to advertisements and book illustrations—let us see how the artists and printers who mastered the new technology of lithography depicted Texas for Texans and promoted the region to the world. With deep research and lucid prose, Ron Tyler shows us how these nineteenth-century printmakers navigated the challenges of their medium, the demands of the market, and their own creative ambitions to picture Texas as it was or, sometimes as they hoped it could be.

An absolutely wonderful book. The prose is crisp, direct, and a delight to read—all the way down to the footnotes. Beyond contextualizing the world of Texas-related lithographs, Tyler provides a unique vantage for viewing that most iconic of Texas centuries. I thought I knew nineteenth-century Texas well, but I found myself learning something new and fascinating in every chapter because I had not encountered the art of the era in this way.

Primed by a distinguished career dedicated to the history and imagery of the American West, Ron Tyler expertly recasts the state’s nineteenth-century history through the visual power and commercial development of lithography. From city views and ship portraits to Mardi Gras invitations and caricatures, these images tell compelling stories that chronicled, fantasized, and drove the dynamic history of Texas under five of its flags. This book will enlighten and delight anyone interested in the history of Texas or print culture.

Texas Lithographs is a gorgeous testament to Ron Tyler’s long and deep fascination with the subject. The images—whether of people, cities, wildlife, or cartoons—are beautifully reproduced, and, enhanced by Tyler’s thematic chapters, tell the story of nineteenth-century Texas in a striking new way. This is a book to savor.

While the publication honors Texas’ history, it equally celebrates the art of lithography. From maps and bonds to advertisements and posters, the included works present the diversity of lithography, highlighting the beauty — and importance — of printmaking.

If you’re searching for an exquisite illustrated book on Texas history, Ron Tyler’s Texas Lithographs certainly fits the bill. Here’s the catch: This 518-page book is far more than simply a pretty book to display on a coffee table. Tyler’s book is a hybrid of stunning period images and tightly woven sentences that relate the origin story of Texas in a refreshingly new way.

A careful, thoughtful, and sensitive examination of Texas as seen by outside observers who ‘learned’ about Texas through popular imagery; and almost exclusively from lithographs...[This book offers] penetrating analysis of the evolution of Texas imagery.

A museum-style collection of historical prints, landscapes, and portraits of early Texas life. Elegant, classic, and rooted in heritage.