Wanted: The Outlaw in American Visual Culture

by Rachel Hall

Book Overview

Assembling a rich archive of images and texts from the eighteenth century to the present, Rachel Hall offers a history of the "wanted" poster, examining its uses, patterns of circulation, and formal development as an iconic print genre. Her narrative covers a wide range of images: execution broadsides, runaway slave notices, private detective posters, FBI posters, artists' approximations, and the depiction of key figures in the "war on terror."...

• Format: Paperback
• Language: English
• ISBN: 0813928567
• ISBN13: 9780813928562
• Release Date: November 2009
• Publisher: University of Virginia Press
• Length: 216 Pages
• Weight: 0.55 lbs.
• Dimensions: 0.6" x 5.9" x 8.8"