Product Description

This title features renowned artist-historian Don Troiani's careful research, painstaking attention to detail, and dramatic style.

Product Details

• Amazon Sales Rank: #692099 in Books
• Published on: 1995-11-30
• Original language: English
• Number of items: 1
• Binding: Hardcover
• 188 pages

Customer Reviews

don troiani's civil war
full of beautiful colour plates by a great artist
text is very readable too
brings to life this subject

In awe of a beautiful book!
This book is simply magnificent. I cannot recall how many times I have picked this book up, just to gaze once again at Troiani's wonderful representations of the fighting men and historic moments of the American Civil War. You don't need to have a keen interest in the Civil War to enjoy these superb depictions but for those who do these works of art are beyond compare. I am not yet fortunate enough to have a Troiani print hanging on one of my walls at home but I shall make it my business to move heaven and earth to do so!

Bringing History Alive
There is a temptation to think that history prior to this century was in black and white. The faces and landscapes of the American Civil War have so often come to us through the revolutionary photo journalism of Matthew Brady or the newsprint of contemporary periodicals. These are unprecendented chronicles of the time, yet colorless and (until Ken Burn's wonderful documentatary) largely static, lifeless. The carefully researched works of Don Troiani remind us that the principals of that sad time saw the world as we do -- with color, life! I am fortunate to own two Don Troiani art prints and, after leafing through "Troiani's Civil War" I wish I owned more. Not only is it a wonderful collection of the artist's work, but a fair cross section of major moments in the war. More than any of his contemporary artists, Troiani is a historian first. This, and his attention to the common soldier commend this work and his most highly.