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Read [Fiona Deans Halloran Book] * Thomas Nast: The Father of Modern Political Cartoons Online # PDF eBook or Kindle ePUB free. Thomas Nast: The Father of Modern Political Cartoons Thomas Nast (1840-1902), the founding father of American political cartooning, is perhaps best known for his cartoons portraying political parties as the Democratic donkey and the Republican elephant. Halloran interprets Nast's work, explores his motivations and ideals, and illuminates Nast's lasting legacy on American political culture.. Throughout his career, his drawings provided a pointed critique that forced readers to confront the contradictions around them. Nast's legacy also includes a t
| Title | : | Thomas Nast: The Father of Modern Political Cartoons |
| Author | : | |
| Rating | : | 4.98 (854 Votes) |
| Asin | : | 0807835870 |
| Format Type | : | paperback |
| Number of Pages | : | 384 Pages |
| Publish Date | : | 2013-12-10 |
| Language | : | English |
The process resembles nothing so much as modern-day political blogging. Halloran captures the intensity of the period, in which Nast churned out cartoon after cartoon, sometimes as many as seven per weekly issue. —Josh Fruhlinger . One might forgive a biographer for exaggerating the extent to which her subject's art brought down the tyrant but Thomas Nast is still a powerful public case study of the unique power of art, and a saga of Gilded Age politics. In the process, we also get a more concrete look at what cartooning meant for Nast—not just as art, but as a means of wielding political influence and making money. From Bookforum One of the great pleasures of Halloran's biography is watching Nast go from being a mere artist to a political-cartooning superstar
Thomas Nast (1840-1902), the founding father of American political cartooning, is perhaps best known for his cartoons portraying political parties as the Democratic donkey and the Republican elephant. Halloran interprets Nast's work, explores his motivations and ideals, and illuminates Nast's lasting legacy on American political culture.. Throughout his career, his drawings provided a pointed critique that forced readers to confront the contradictions around them. Nast's legacy also includes a trove of other political cartoons, his successful attack on the machine politics of Tammany Hall in 1871, and his wildly popular illustrations of Santa Claus for Harper's Weekly magazine. In this thoroughgoing and lively biography, Fiona Deans Halloran focuses not just on Nast's political cartoons for Harper's but also on his place within the complexities of Gilded Age politics and highlights the many contradictions in his own life: he was an immigrant who attacked immigrant communities, a supporter of civil rights who portrayed black men as foolish children in need of guidance, and an ene
Mary Zuzan said A Must Read. Ms. Halloran has written a lively, really-I-never- knew -that" account about the life and times of Thomas Nast. Concentrating mostly on his political cartoons, a man and his environment comes to life. The book has wonderful drawings showing how Nast evolved as a cartoonist.I am pleased with Amazon's service, also. The book arrived quickly and in pristine condition.. James D. Crabtree said Life of the man who invented Santa Claus, perfected the editorial cartoon and brought down Boss Tweed. This book does an excellent job of bring Thomas Nast to life. Nast, a German immigrant, was the right man at the right place at the right time with the right skills. His sketches during the Civil War in the new-style illustrated periodicals helped to rally and focus support for the Union cause in ways that mere words could not. Later, he was to use those skills to support President Grant and to oppose those who would turn their backs on Lincoln's l. "Drawn & Quartered" according to Christian Schlect. I wanted to learn about the American political cartoonist Thomas Nash and this book served my need.In serviceable prose and with commendable accuracy, the author, Fiona Deans Halloran, takes one through both Mr. Nash's private life and his very public life as the premier national political cartoonist of the post-Civil War era.New York City's Boss Tweed, President U.S. Grant, public lecture tours, the government's highly unfortunate decision to halt
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