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"Painting America's Portrait - How Illustrators Created Their Art" is the first in a two-book series. Here James Thompson uses over 300 famous and forgotten illustrations to show how America's artist admen and storytellers harnessed changes in corporate advertising and advances in image reproduction technology to create increasingly dramatic and colorful images. Their corporate patrons used these works to sell products to the American consumers they also manufactured.Mr. Thompson begins this pictorial narrative with the westward migration that followed the Civil War. Thompson shows the Wild West being pacified, industrialists transforming the nation from a tapestry of agricultural communities into a whizzing commercial network, burgeoning cities filling with hopeful immigrants, and corporations growing into national manufacturing/marketing machines. Mark Twain called it the Gilded Age. Some remembered those times in terms of the corruption and extravagance of the moguls who built the country's railroads, factories, newspapers, and seemingly everything else of material consequence. Others idolize the poor, honest laborers who toiled in its smoke-belching factories. Mr. Thompson focuses on a neglected third segment of the Gild Age's stratified society. Corporatization created America's aspiring, upwardly mobile middle class. Thompson pictures it as the backbone of America's consumer system and the target of its endless corporate promotions.Having illustrated the progress of technology and commerce, Mr. Thompson focuses on the two primary arts of illustration. First, he shows America's artist admen developing their skill. By the turn of the century, they had the tools and were good enough to incorporate psychology in their graphics. By the beginning of the 20th century, they were making consumers envision themselves in terms of the products they saw in advertisements. While admen encouraged consumers to internalize products, artist storytellers were drawing readers out of themselves into the adventures of authors and yarn spinners. They did this by picturing impending action.The Golden Age of Illustration had reached this glamorous peak when war broke out in Europe. America's artist admen and storytellers then entered the service of their country.

How long is Painting America's Portrait?

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