The Shipcarvers' Art: Figureheads and Cigar-Store Indians in Nineteenth-Century America
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Among the most popular and ubiquitous sculptures in nineteenth-century America were the ship's figurehead and the cigar-store Indian. The vast majority of these engaging human figures were created by shipcarvers-highly skilled artists celebrated for their masterful figureheads but who collectively made tens of thousands of shop figures as well, from fanciful representations of American Indians to firemen, baseball players, and fashionable women. Shaped...
Format:Hardcover
Language:English
ISBN:0691120811
ISBN13:9780691120812
Release Date:April 2005
Publisher:Princeton University Press
Length:240 Pages
Weight:3.70 lbs.
Dimensions:0.9" x 9.0" x 12.0"
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