Forgotten Marriage: The Painted Tintype & the Decorative Frame, 1860-1910 : a Lost Chapter in American Portraiture
- ISBN-10
- 0961295813
- ISBN-13
- 9780961295813
- Series
- Forgotten Marriage
- Category
- Photography / General
- Pages
- 220
- Language
- English
- Published
- 1995
- Publisher
- Burns Press
- Author
- Stanley B. Burns
Description
This beautifully illustrated book contains more new information about photographic history than any recent volume. It unveils important, previously unexplored, relationships between art & photography & emphasizes photography's relationship to folk art. It vividly describes "50 Lost Years of American Folk Art Portraits". The Foreword by Museum of American Folk Art Director, Gerard Wertkin, explains the discovery of the last stage of folk portraiture as an American cultural force - the painted tintype. It is must reading for photography, art, decorative arts, & folk art curators, dealers & collectors. The information presented is not available in any other source. No library on the arts or antiques should be without this seminal work. It is an indispensable reference work & comprehensive guide to decorative frames & the painted photograph. A value scale & analysis of frames is presented. It is a book of many important firsts--On the tintype, naming specific painters & companies that made the art;--On the American decorative frame, showing all styles--&--On painted photography. The book can be ordered by mail by sending $59.95 plus $5.00 (NY residents add tax) to Burns Press, 140 East 38th Street, New York, NY 10016. 212-889-1938.
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- 1995-01-01
- 220 pages
- Paperback
- Burns Collection, Limited
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