[Comicsstudiessociety] Prints of a New Kind: Political Caricature in the United States, 1789–1828

[Mike Rhode]

We have a reviewer, assuming they're willing to send a copy.

Thank you all for your interest.

Mike

On Fri, May 12, 2023 at 2:23 PM Mike Rhode <mrhode at gmail.com> wrote:

> IJOCA would be interested in a review if anyone wants to contact the
> publisher and get a copy.
>
> Mike
> mrhode at gmail.com
>
> Prints of a New Kind: Political Caricature in the United States, 1789–1828 Allison
> M. Stagg
>
> $79.95 | Hardcover Edition
> ISBN: 978-0-271-09332-1
>
> Available as an e-book
>
> 266 pages
> 7" × 10"
> 71 color/54 b&w illustrations
> 2023
> https://urldefense.com/v3/__https://www.psupress.org/books/titles/978-0-271-09332-1.html__;!!KGKeukY!zjqBg32VrONS3k13Hau58qtPaIGZk5rPw3tofBFTDRxdmJwpTSqA8nus96UHCI162gHassyyc11xiPhzmmim_YYYbVo$ 
>
> “Thoroughly engaging with a well-crafted narrative, *Prints of a New Kind*
> is a long-awaited study filling a significant void in the history of
> American print culture. Allison Stagg sets the stage for a modern and
> popularized notion of political satire. This elegantly written book,
> lavishly illustrated, places the American tradition of caricature as
> separate from its European origins, with its own merits and history worthy
> of detailed examination.”—Nancy Siegel, author of *Along the Juniata:
> Thomas Cole and the Dissemination of American Landscape Imagery*
>
>
>
>    - Description
>    - Reviews
>    - Bio
>    - Subjects
>
> *Prints of a New Kind* details the political strategies and scandals that
> inspired the first generation of American caricaturists to share news and
> opinions with their audiences in shockingly radical ways. Complementing
> studies on British and European printmaking, this book is a survey and
> catalogue of all known American political caricatures created in the
> country’s transformative early years, as the nation sought to define itself
> in relation to European models of governance and artistry.
>
> Allison Stagg examines printed caricatures that mocked events reported in
> newspapers and politicians in the United States’ fledgling government,
> reactions captured in the personal papers of the politicians being
> satirized, and the lives of the artists who satirized them. Stagg’s work
> fills a large gap in early American scholarship, one that has escaped
> thorough art-historical attention because of the rarity of extant images
> and the lack of understanding of how these images fit into their political
> context.
>
> Featuring 125 images, many published here for the first time since their
> original appearance, and a comprehensive appendix that includes a
> checklist of caricature prints with dates, titles, artists, references, and
> other essential information, *Prints of a New Kind *will be welcomed by
> scholars and students of early American history and art history as well as
> visual, material, and print culture.
>
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