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LIONS AND EAGLES AND BULLS: EARLY AMERICAN TAVERN AND INN By Susan P. Schoelwer
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- ISBN-10
- 0691070601
- Book Title
- Lions and Eagles and Bulls: Early American Tavern and Inn Signs
- Publication Name
- Princeton University Press
- Publication Year
- 2000
- Format
- Unknown
- Genre
- ANTIQUES & COLLECTIBLES
- Type
- Hardcover
- Number Of Pages
- 279
- Item Length
- 9.5 inches
- Item Width
- 1 inches
- Item Height
- 12 inches
- Item Weight
- 4.12 pounds
- ISBN
- 9780691070605
- Language
- English
- Publisher
- Princeton University Press
- Topic
- Graphic Arts / Commercial & Corporate, Americana, American / General, Advertising & Promotion, Food, Lodging & Transportation / Hotels, Inns & Hostels
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Proud lions, patriotic eagles, and solemn bulls--not to mention prancing horses, majestic oak trees, and festive table settings--graced the roadsides of colonial America. Painted onto wooden signboards and hung above the heads of passers-by, these colorful images communicated critical information, enabling local residents and travelers to find their way to commercial enterprises and civic gatherings. These signs, as they evolved from the eighteenth through the mid-nineteenth century, documented the radical shift from a premodern agricultural society to the entrepreneurial, market-driven, and increasingly urban economy of the early Republic. Handsomely illustrated with over seventy color plates, this catalogue--published in collaboration with a major traveling exhibition--features works from the Connecticut Historical Society, which houses the nation's preeminent collection of early American painted signs. Eight essays, written by prominent scholars of American art and cultural history, explore the medium and discuss why these signs are much more than picturesque relics of bygone times. Indeed, this volume reconnects sign paintings to the broad continuum of artistic genres and practices within which they were produced, displayed, and viewed. An accessible text, illustrated generously throughout, includes an introduction that encourages the reader to engage with sign paintings from a variety of artistic and cultural perspectives including those of vernacular art, commercial art, and visual and material culture. Other essays examine specific aspects of sign paintings: the creative processes of the individual makers, the distinctive techniques and materials used, the development of the profession, the iconography and sources, and the consequences of outdoor installation on aesthetic and cultural meanings. The volume also features a detailed catalogue of the sign paintings in the exhibition and brief biographies of those sign painters that have been documented in Connecticut. Both building on and recasting the rich legacy of "folk art," Lions and Eagles and Bulls provides a wealth of new information about these highly significant and well-loved objects to scholars, collectors, and art-lovers alike. Contributors to the catalogue include Philip D. Zimmerman, Margaret C. Vincent, Sandra Webber, Alexander Carlisle, Nancy Finlay, Catherine Gudis, Kenneth L. Ames, and Bryan J. Wolf. EXHIBITION SCHEDULE: The Connecticut Historical Society, Hartford, Connecticut, October-December, 2000 Hood Museum of Art Dartmouth College, Hanover, New Hampshire, June-September, 2001 The Museums at Stony Brook, Long Island, New York, September-December, 2001 Museum of our National Heritage, Lexington, Massachusetts, April-October, 2002
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Publisher
Princeton University Press
ISBN-10
0691070601
ISBN-13
9780691070605
eBay Product ID (ePID)
1768268
Product Key Features
Language
English
Topic
Graphic Arts / Commercial & Corporate, Americana, American / General, Advertising & Promotion, Food, Lodging & Transportation / Hotels, Inns & Hostels
Dimensions
Item Length
12in.
Item Height
1in.
Item Width
9.5in.
Item Weight
66.1 Oz
Additional Product Features
Book Title
Lions and Eagles and Bulls : Early American Tavern and Inn Signs from the Connecticut Historical Society
Lc Classification Number
Gt3911.A2l56 2000
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"Nothing is overlooked: there are diagrams of signboard construction, a history of Connecticut inns, the iconography of eagles and other symbols, cross-sections of paint samples, and meditations on social and cultural history. All of this precedes the catalog proper, with nearly 60 color plates of the signs and highly detailed descriptions of each. Even then, there is more. . . ." -- Choice, Nothing is overlooked: there are diagrams of signboard construction, a history of Connecticut inns, the iconography of eagles and other symbols, cross-sections of paint samples, and meditations on social and cultural history. All of this precedes the catalog proper, with nearly 60 color plates of the signs and highly detailed descriptions of each. Even then, there is more. . . ., Nothing is overlooked: there are diagrams of signboard construction, a history of Connecticut inns, the iconography of eagles and other symbols, cross-sections of paint samples, and meditations on social and cultural history. All of this precedes the catalog proper, with nearly 60 color plates of the signs and highly detailed descriptions of each. Even then, there is more. . . . -- "Choice, "Nothing is overlooked: there are diagrams of signboard construction, a history of Connecticut inns, the iconography of eagles and other symbols, cross-sections of paint samples, and meditations on social and cultural history. All of this precedes the catalog proper, with nearly 60 color plates of the signs and highly detailed descriptions of each. Even then, there is more." -- Choice
Table of Content
Foreword by DAVID M. KAHN x Acknowledgments xi Chapter 1: Contributors 1 Introduction: Rediscovering the Public Art of Early American Inn Signs by Susan P. Schoelwer 2 Chapter 2 Signs of the Times: A Brief Cultural History of Sign Painting by Bryan J. Wolf 14 Chapter 3 Reading the Signs: An Object History of Tavern Signs from Connecticut, 1750-1850 by Philip D. Zimmerman 22 Chapter 4 "Some suitable Signe . . . for the direction of Strangers": Signboards and the Enterprise of Innkeeping in Connecticut by Margaret C. Vincent 36 Chapter 5 Lions and Eagles and Other Images on Early Inn Signs by Nancy Finlay 56 Chapter 6 "Faithfully and Promptly Executed": A Conservator's View of Sign Painting by Sandra L. Webber 66 Chapter 7 Weather It Is or Whether It Isn't by Alexander M . Carlisle 80 Chapter 8 From Tavern Signs to Golden Arches: A Landscape of Signs Catherine Gudis 84 Chapter 9 Signs of the Past in the Present Kenneth L. Ames 94 Chapter 10 Afterword: Signs in American Art and Cultural History by Susan P. Schoelwer 102 CATALOGUE: Plates of The Connecticut Historical Society Collection of Early American Tavern and Inn Signs 111 Morgan B. Brainard, 1879-195'7, and the Brainard Tavern Sign Collection by Ellsworth S. Grant 178 Catalogue Entries by Philip D. Zimmerman, Margaret C. Vincent and Susan P. Schoelwer 182 Appendix 1: Sign Painters in Connecticut, 1760-1850 by Margaret C. Vincent 243 Appendix 2: Checklist of Connecticut Tavern and Inn Signs by Philip D. Zimmerman and Margaret C. Vincent 256 Appendix 3: Conservation Treatment Protocol 261 Further Readings 264 Index 269
Copyright Date
2001
Format
Hardcover
Target Audience
Trade
Lccn
00-103724
Publication Year
2000
Dewey Edition
0
Illustrated
Yes
Genre
Design, Travel, Art, Antiques & Collectibles, Business & Economics
Number of Pages
192 Pages
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