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Product Details
Gallery Books, October 2007
Hardcover, 192 pages
ISBN-10: 1416940669
ISBN-13: 9781416940661
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Table of Contents
Contents
Introduction
The Search for the First Snowman
Part 1
THE MODERN SNOWMAN
Chapter One
The Age of Expansion: The Twenty-first Century
Chapter Two
The White Trash Years: 1975-2000
Chapter Three
The Hollywood Years: There's No Business Like Snow Business
Chapter Four
The Golden Age of Advertising Since the Early Twentieth Century: Snow Sells
Chapter Five
The Dean Martin Years: Drunken Debauchery and Other Misgivings
Chapter Six
Snowman Deconstructionism: Literary Circles
Chapter Seven
The Birth of a Media Star: 1870s-1910s
Chapter Eight
Snowman Photography since the Mid-Nineteenth Century: Mr. Sound Bite
Intermission
A Comic Interlude of the Best Snowmen Cartoons
Part 2
THE RENAISSANCE SNOWMAN
Chapter Nine
The Revolution of 1870: The Snowman's French Roll
Chapter Ten
Made in America: The Snow Angel of 1856
Chapter Eleven
Eighteenth-Century Snow and Ice Sculpture: From Russia with Love Handles
Chapter Twelve
Early American Snowmen in the Seventeenth Century: New World, Fresh Snow
Chapter Thirteen
Snowman Exploration in the Late Sixteenth Century
Chapter Fourteen
Belgian Expressionism: The Miracle of 1511
Chapter Fifteen
Early Classism in Snow Sculpture: Politically Incorrect Fun
Chapter Sixteen
Italian Snowballs from the Fifteenth Century: The Two-Ball Theory
Chapter Seventeen
The First Snowman
Chapter Eighteen
The Ice Age: Who Came First, the Caveman or the Snowman?
Conclusion
The Complete Meltdown
Miscellanea
Bibliography
Acknowledgments
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